Bug#316271: [Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#316271: nagios install fails "chage: can't open shadow password fileadduser"

[prosolutions@gmx.net, 316271@bugs.debian.org]

So wrote sean finney on Wednesday, 29 June 2005:
> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:00:07 -0400
> From: sean finney <seanius@debian.org>
> To: prosolutions@gmx.net, 316271@bugs.debian.org
> Subject: Re: [Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#316271: nagios install fails "chage: can't open shadow password fileadduser"
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i
> 
> hi,
> 
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 02:28:51PM -0500, prosolutions@gmx.net wrote:
> > .../nagios-common_2%3a1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.1_all.deb) ...
> > chage: can't open shadow password fileadduser: `/usr/bin/chage -M 99999
> 
> a couple questions:
> 
> are you running this in a chroot?
> are you using anything non-standard in nsswitch or pam (ldap/nis)
> 
> 


No not running in a chroot.  I have not changed nsswitch nor any ldap or
nis settings for pam.