From: Lars Hecking (lhecking@nmrc.ucc.ie)
Date: Tue Dec 02 2003 - 10:53:03 EST
I wrote:
> # whoami
> root
> # passwd user
> New Password:
> Re-enter new Password:
> Permission denied
> #
>
> What could be the problem? I tried to truss the process, but couldn't
> spot anything useful?
>
> This is on our NIS server, running Solaris 9 8/03.
Thanks to:
Nicolas Figaro
Chad Graham
Daniel Jaime
Larye Parkins
David M Dennis
Patrick O'Reilly
Ed Rolison
Matthias Wanke
The suggestions were:
- check /etc/pam.conf (unchanged from the default install)
- make sure there is one, and only one, entry for the user in both
passwd and shadow
- make sure that passwd and shadow are consistent with each other
(see pwconv(1m))
- try the nispasswd command (which is actually for nis+ :)
- try 'passwd -r files'
- make sure yppasswdd is running
Turns out yppasswdd was not running. Thanks to Ed Rolison for the
suggestion.
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