Bug 101607
| Summary: | Error Message is "vague" | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Paul Campbell <seapwc> |
| Component: | redhat-config-users | Assignee: | Brent Fox <bfox> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-08-15 00:12:01 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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I have changed the text to read: "The user database cannot be read. This problem is most likely caused by a mismatch in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. The program will exit now." I hope that helps clarify the problem. Should be fixed in redhat-config-users-1.1.16-1. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6 Description of problem: Error message "user database can not be read" doesn't give useful information. The problem turned out to be a mismatch between passwd and shadow. Perhaps, the message could reflect that. I ended up searching thru google and redhat for that message. Since I got a hit on redhat, I wasn't the first to wonder down that path. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.delete or add a line from either passwd or shadow 2. 3. Expected Results: Mismatch on number of entries for shadow and passwd. Correct and restart. Additional info: