Permission denied error while changing password

From: Agrawal, Devendra \(Indust, PTL\) (devendra.agrawal@penske.com)
Date: Wed Jan 24 2007 - 11:23:32 EST

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Sunmanagers,

I am running Sun Solaris 5.10 on Sun Fire-V240. Recently I observed an
issue when changing the "root" password (or for any other user account
on the server). I get a "permission denied" error.

# passwd root
New Password:
Re-enter new Password:
Permission denied

I see the following error in /var/adm/messages file:
Jan 24 11:15:28 host1 passwd[734]: [ID 587833 user.error] passwdutil.so:
can't get domain

I already took this server out of NIS by renaming /etc/defaultdomain
file.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks & Regards,

Devendra Agrawal
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