From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Largent Subject: Re: changing password Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 17:11:39 -0400 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3EB03C0B.5000107@imagelinks.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: "Kirkwood, David A" Cc: "'linux-admin@vger.kernel.org '" 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 > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > -- Jeff Largent ImageLinks, Inc. Sr System Admin Melbourne, Fl 32935 (321) 253-0011 fax: (321) 253-5559