passwd

Carl Reynolds redhat-list at hyperbole-software.com
Fri Aug 26 03:09:13 UTC 2005


Meadows, Andrew wrote:

>... When they
>log in they cannot change their password. If they try with the passwd
>command they receive this error message, passwd: Authentication token
>manipulation error.
>
I have never worked on a Red Hat system where anyone but root could 
change the password. I think this is a standard security precaution 
built into Linux.



Carl.






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