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miro279

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[SOLVED] groups shadow and ghadow

After an update I cleaned the above files and now get a error for shadow.service:

● shadow.service - Verify integrity of password and group files
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/shadow.service; static; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since So 2015-03-01 23:09:41 CET; 10min ago
  Process: 641 ExecStart=/usr/bin/grpck -r (code=exited, status=2)
  Process: 618 ExecStart=/usr/bin/pwck -r (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 641 (code=exited, status=2)

Mär 01 23:09:41 abraxas grpck[641]: no matching group file entry in /etc/gshadow
Mär 01 23:09:41 abraxas grpck[641]: add group 'polkitd' in /etc/gshadow? No
Mär 01 23:09:41 abraxas grpck[641]: invalid shadow group file entry
Mär 01 23:09:41 abraxas grpck[641]: delete line 'polkitd:!:::'? No
Mär 01 23:09:41 abraxas grpck[641]: grpck: no changes
Mär 01 23:09:41 abraxas systemd[1]: shadow.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVA...MENT
Mär 01 23:09:41 abraxas systemd[1]: Failed to start Verify integrity of password and group files.
Mär 01 23:09:41 abraxas systemd[1]: Unit shadow.service entered failed state.
Mär 01 23:09:41 abraxas systemd[1]: shadow.service failed.
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In /etc/group I have

polkitd:x:102:

in /etc/gshadow

polkitd:!:::

/etc/shadow

polkitd:!:15644:0:99999:7:::

User management is not an open book to me to be honest. Hope you can help me here.

Thanks!

Last edited by miro279 (2015-03-02 19:36:18)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [SOLVED] groups shadow and ghadow

After an update I cleaned the above files

Please elaborate on this.

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miro279

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Re: [SOLVED] groups shadow and ghadow

I added groups to /etc/group that where new in group.pacnew, as I didn't backup the old file, I'm not enterly sure though I didn't do anything else stupid..

ukhippo

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Re: [SOLVED] groups shadow and ghadow

Have you tried running grpck manually? That way you can answer yes to the questions to update gshadow.

miro279

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Re: [SOLVED] groups shadow and ghadow

That did the trick! Thanks for the hint!!