[cobalt-users] RaQ3i password file LOCKED?

["Andrew Vernon" <avernon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is bizzare.

Today, my RaQ3i started choking on password changes.  Attempts to change a password from the web control panel are rebuffed with a "password file is locked" error message. Changes from the shell fail the same way.

This also has the side effect of preventing users from fetching their mail.

When I inspected /etc/shadow, I found its permissions set to 400.  The root user needs read/write access in order to maintain the password list, unless everything I've learned about UNIX is wrong.  However, chmod fails with the error, "operation not permitted."  Unless there's a solution to this, I'm probably going to have to do something nasty like clear the file's inode and try replacing the file with a copy.
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Andrew Vernon
avernon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx