[arch-general] failed to start verify of integrity of password and group files - Was: (no subject)

[Francis Gerund]

Hi.

I actuallly did see that, but that seems to talk about the shadow.service
"failing" to start or run properly.

the terminal message I was getting said:

   shadow.service - Verify integrity of password and group files
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/shadow.service; static; vendor
preset: disabled)
   Active: inactive (dead)

So it was like, "what do that mean"? And since it mentioned checking the
password file, I figured I'd best check into it.

I don't know what the shadow.service is, and am new to systemd.

On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 14:39 -0500, Francis Gerund wrote:
> > failed to start verify of integrity of password and group files
>
> I noticed it a long time ago and ignored it, however, when searching
> the web with startpage for "failed to start verify of integrity of
> password and group files", the first hit I get starts with [SOLVED]:
>
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=180203
>
> Id it's important for your security, you should read such threads. I
> didn't read this or any other thread.
>