can convert to trusted system

[Dave Bunting]

When I try to convert my system I get this error message:

The attempt to convert this system to a trusted system failed. The command return value was "-1" and the standard error output was: Can't write protected database; password file unchanged.

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how do i check my /etc/passwd file for consistency/ NIS entries?
Thanks in advance...

[Rainer von Bongartz]

check yout passwd : pwck
check yout groups : grpck


Regards
Rainer

[Stefan Farrelly]

The only possibilities for your error I can think of are;

1. enough space in / (as tsconvert now creates the directory structure /tcb for the new protected password entries. You should only need a few MB in / though - depending on the size of your passwd file. The bigger the passwd file the more space you will need in /

2. permissions. Are you running it as root ? permissions on / are 755 ? Does /tcb already exist ?

If the tsconvert command failed the passwd file should be as it was originally so nothing to worry about. Just to fix the problem and rerun it.

[Dave Bunting]

I have enough space...
how do i check permissions for / ?

[Stefan Farrelly · Accepted solution]

ls -ld /

Should come back with;

drwxr-xr-x root rooot /