Problem with Password changes on Redhat machines - continued
John O'Loughlin
j.oloughlin at qmul.ac.uk
Fri Nov 10 11:19:17 UTC 2006
Do not delete this file!
John
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Andrew.Bridgeman at corusgroup.com wrote:
>
>
> It looks like the problem i have is to do with the Pam settings on the
> machines in /etc/pam.d/sysy-auth, i think it might be enforcing some strict
> password checking. Can anyone tell me what i need to change or delete in
> this file for the local root password to be changed? The file is below.
>
> #%PAM-1.0
> # This file is auto-generated.
> # User changes will be destroyed the next time authconfig is run.
> auth required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_env.so
> auth sufficient /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so likeauth nullok
> auth required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_deny.so
>
> account required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so
>
> password required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_cracklib.so retry=3 type=
> password sufficient /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so nullok use_authtok
> md5 shadow nis
> password required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_deny.so
>
> session required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_limits.so
> session required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so
>
> Regards
>
> Andrew Bridgeman
>
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>
>
> I am currently trying to change the local root password on our Redhat
> machine but i get the error below. The strange thing about it is that the
> Unix machines have been can be changed with no problems at all, for some
> reason the Redhat machines seem to think they are a NIS client but this
> should not be the case. Does anyone have any ideas how i can stop this
> error?
>
> passwd
> Changing password for user root.
> New password:
> Retype new password:
> RPC: Can't encode arguments
> The password has not been changed on nisserver.
> passwd: Failed preliminary check by password service
>
> Regards
>
> Andrew Bridgeman
>
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