RE: passwd

From: Stephen Carville (stephen_at_totalflood.com)
Date: 08/26/05

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    On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Meadows, Andrew wrote:

    > Nope..
    > Firewall is on but no selinux

    That was the most obvious so....

    check the permissions on /usr/bin/passwd. S/B something like:

    -r-s--x--x 1 root root 19336 Sep 7 2004 /usr/bin/passwd

    the passwd and shadow files:

    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1784 Feb 17 2005 /etc/passwd
    -r-------- 1 root root 1162 Feb 17 2005 /etc/shadow

    If the above are all copacetic, try running passwd from strace as a user:

    $ strace passwd

    A blood sacrifice of a small mammal might help too :-)

    > -----Original Message-----
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    > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Carville
    > Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 10:30 PM
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    > Subject: Re: passwd
    >
    > On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Meadows, Andrew wrote:
    >
    >> 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.
    >
    > Did you enable selinux?
    >
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