Mike Cisar wrote:
Have a system running FC2 and have recently noticed problems with the
gshadow file becoming corrupted on groups with a large number of members
(100+).
...
Any ideas, suggestions?
I've tried this on a FC3 system:
groupadd guser0
useradd -ctest0 -gguser0 -Gguser0 -psecret user0
And the last line in /etc/gshadow reads:
guser0:!::!,,,,,,,,,,,,,!,0,,,!,!,!,user0
Then I did the following trick:
Install the shadow-utils SRPMS and
if necessary, the gettext-devel RPM.
cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
rpmbuild -bb shadow-utils.spec
rpm --nodeps -e shadow-utils
rpm -i /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/shadow-utils-4.0.3-37.i386.rpm
and the problem had disappeard:
I remove the guser0 and user0 entries in /etc/shadow /etc/passwd
/etc/group and /etc/gshadow, and run the two lines above again,
and now the last line in /etc/gshadow contains:
guser0:!::user0
Strange, isn't it?
Mogens
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