root can not change user's passwd, or user cannot change passwd o nly changes are made thru admintool

From: Kirkland, Mike # IHTUL (mike.kirkland@ndchealth.com)
Date: Mon Sep 16 2002 - 17:14:14 EDT

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Hi everyone,

I am running Solaris 2.6 on sparc. I have a problem maybe other admins might
have seen. root can only change roots password from the command line using
the passwd command. root cannot change a regular user's password using the
passwd command, nor can a regular user change their own password. But using
admintool, root can reset/change any user's password.

The error given on failure to change password is:

Myserver # passwd kirkland
passwd(SYSTEM): kirkland does not exist
Permission denied

Myserver-kirkland > passwd kirkland
passwd(SYSTEM): kirkland does not exist
Permission denied

any thoughts??
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