passwd
Michael Velez
mikev777 at hotmail.com
Fri Aug 26 03:38:29 UTC 2005
>
> Ok I need some help. I have RedHat 3 update4 installed on
> multiple servers. I created some accounts for users with the
> root ID. 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
> think this may have something to do with the fact that I
> recently had to change the umask of root to 077 because of auditors.
> Any thoughts you have on whats going on or how to fix this
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
If it is a umask problem, doing an:
strace passwd <user> should give you information on which file it's trying
to access, which is generating the error.
Michael
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