Dear Sir, I would appreciate for quick help because I am operating a medium size network & all stuck up. we use RedHat 7.1 for authentication of our network users with passwd -l username & passwd -u username commands to lock & unlock them. System was working a long long way. But now, it authenticate users but dont change their status & on above commands issued the following errors: "Changing password for user username Locking password for user username passwd: Error (passwd not set?)" Same behaviour with orginal passwd & shadow files (i backup new system files at installation) I have run pwck, pwconv & pwunconv utilities and same status. It means something goes wrong at passwd mechanism, would you like to advise me? Your early response will be highly appreciated. Regards (NASIR) Lahore - Pakistan.
