OCI - Unable to Use "chage" Command to Change User Password Expiration Information

Applies to:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later

Linux x86-64

Symptoms

Using the “chage” command to change the password expiration for a user that fails with the following output:

$ sudo chage -M 45 rootchage: cannot open /etc/passwd

Cause

The /etc/passwd file has the wrong selinux context set, check with:

$ sudo ls -lZ /etc/passwd
-rw-r--r--. root root system_u:object_r:etc_t:s0       /etc/passwd

It should look like this:

$ sudo ls -lZ /etc/passwd
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root system_u:object_r:passwd_file_t:s0 3150 Aug 21 07:49 /etc/passwd

Solution

Change it to default with the following command