Problem with account manager

[markwilkinson]

I am running Openserver 5.0.5. When I try the running Account Manager logged on as root I get the following error
message :-

"Unable to get initial list of users Failed to process the scoped request. General failure occurred in processing the request. Could not access file /etc/passwd. File does not exist or has improper access permissions /etc/passwd: File Control database inconsistency File mode of /etc/passwd is 1ff should be 1b4"

Does anyone have any ideas what this might be ? The account manager worked fine yesterday. Any help would be most appreciated.

 

[motoslide]

Try running the /tcb/bin/integrity -e utility and note any discrepencies it lists. In most cases, you'll want to adjust the file and directory permissions (and ownership) to comply.
This is my listing on /etc/passwd:

-rw-rw-r--   1 bin      auth        2577 Oct 14  2004 passwd

This is from a 5.0.4 system. On newer versions, the /etc/passwd is a symbolic link to:
/var/opt/K/SCO/Unix/5.0.{versionspecific}/etc/passwd

I haven't encountered the error you are seeing, but this is where I would start if I had.

 

[markwilkinson]

This has worked. The permissions on our passwd file were set to 777 - I have reset there (and has it happens those of the the "group" file which was also wrong) to those suggested by the utility. Account manager now works.

Many thanks for the reply.