From: Jeff Largent <jlargent@imagelinks.com>
To: "Kirkwood, David A" <DAVID.A.KIRKWOOD@saic.com>
Cc: "'linux-admin@vger.kernel.org '" <linux-admin@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: changing password
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 17:11:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EB03C0B.5000107@imagelinks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D08E09E5E39ED311B01E00C00D0142FF012755EC@arl-trg-exch01>
The only time I've ever seen errors changing have been if
/etc/passwd- or /etc/shadow- have been deleted.
Jeff
Kirkwood, David A wrote:
> I tries to change passwords on the system and get the following:
>
> Changing password for user root.
> passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
>
> I shut the system down to single user and got the same.
>
> I am running RH7.3. I know I have changed the password before
> and had the same problem, but don't remember what I did.
>
> All help is appreciated.
>
> Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-30 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-30 17:14 changing password Kirkwood, David A
2003-04-30 20:52 ` Keith Morse
2003-04-30 21:12 ` Mikel Bauer
2003-04-30 21:11 ` Jeff Largent [this message]
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2003-05-01 14:01 Kirkwood, David A
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