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This usually happens when
* you are trying to change a password
* while filesystem that contains /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow (usually the root filesystem) is mounted read-only.
 
 
...for example because
you booted up using [[the init trick]],
are in in some maintenance mode/runlevel,
or intentionally made the root filesystem read-only.
 
 
If you're sure you want to (e.g. this isn't triggered by an automatic remount-readonly to prevent filesystem corruption), then you can do an in-place re-mount of a filesystem, which lets you change between read-only and read-write.
 
In the case of the root filesystem:
mount -o remount,rw /
 
 
 
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[[Category:Warnings and errors]]

Latest revision as of 15:27, 14 July 2023