"chage" command is failing with an error "chage: the shadow password file is not present"
Issue
chagecommand is failing with an error
chage: the shadow password file is not present
- On running
chagecommand following error is logged in /var/log/secure:
Apr 9 10:00:55 testsystem chage[24934]: can't find the shadow password file
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux(RHEL) 6/7
- PAM
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