Various commands installed but not found?

**forquare** · June 19th, 2012

passwd package status:

Code:

$ dpkg-query -s passwd
Package: passwd
Status: install ok installed
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: required
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 2000
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: i386
Source: shadow
Version: 1:4.1.4.2+svn3283-3ubuntu5
Replaces: manpages-tr (<< 1.0.5), manpages-zh (<< 1.5.1-1)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libselinux1 (>= 1.32), libpam-modules, debianutils (>= 2.15.2)
Conffiles:
 /etc/default/useradd cc9f9a7713ab62a32cd38363d958f396
 /etc/cron.daily/passwd db990990933b6f56322725223f13c2bc
 /etc/pam.d/passwd eaf2ad85b5ccd06cceb19a3e75f40c63
 /etc/pam.d/chfn 4d466e00a348ba426130664d795e8afa
 /etc/pam.d/chsh a6e9b589e90009334ffd030d819290a6
 /etc/pam.d/chpasswd 9900720564cb4ee98b7da29e2d183cb2
 /etc/pam.d/newusers 1454e29bfa9f2a10836563e76936cea5
Description: change and administer password and group data
 This package includes passwd, chsh, chfn, and many other programs to
 maintain password and group data.
 .
 Shadow passwords are supported.  See /usr/share/doc/passwd/README.Debian
Homepage: http://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org/
Original-Maintainer: Shadow package maintainers <pkg-shadow-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>

A quick look in /bin:

Code:

$ /bin/passwd
-bash: /bin/passwd: No such file or directory

I can run /bin commands:

Code:

$ /bin/bzip2
bzip2: I won't write compressed data to a terminal.
bzip2: For help, type: `bzip2 --help'.

Finding passwd, no errors:

Code:

$ find / -iname 'passwd' 2>/dev/null
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/passwd
/usr/share/doc/passwd
/etc/passwd
/etc/pam.d/passwd
/etc/cron.daily/passwd
/home/server/.vnc/passwd

Trying to reinstall passwd:

Code:

$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall passwd
[sudo] password for server: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 935 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main passwd i386 1:4.1.4.2+svn3283-3ubuntu5 [935 kB]
Fetched 935 kB in 2s (415 kB/s) 
(Reading database ... 254758 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace passwd 1:4.1.4.2+svn3283-3ubuntu5 (using .../passwd_1%3a4.1.4.2+svn3283-3ubuntu5_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement passwd ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up passwd (1:4.1.4.2+svn3283-3ubuntu5) ...
$
$
$ passwd
Changing password for server.
(current) UNIX password: 
Enter new UNIX password: 
Retype new UNIX password: 
passwd: password updated successfully

It works

Thank you so much!