On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 08:55:38PM +0200, Lars Degerstedt wrote: > It seems I've got into problems with 'passwd' with Redhat 7.0. I cannot > create a new password for an account (it happened to be a newly created > account) as root: > > % passwd foo > Changing password for user foo > New UNIX password: > Retype new UNIX password: > passwd: Authentication token manipulation error > % > > Any hints anyone why this is the case? You upgraded from a system without shadow passwords, right? By default, 7.0 boxes came with PAM configured to use shadow, so this broke those systems. Either grab the errata package for 7.0, or run authconfig, which will rewrite the configuration to match your system, and you should be able to set passwords correctly. Cheers, Nalin
