Re: root password aged problem

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You mean in the services listed in /etc/pam.d ? Which ones exactly? I have 
checked login, passwd, and ssh and they all seem to use system-auth which 
makes references to pam_unix.

Cheers

At 11:27 AM 2/20/02 +0530, Sridhar Bandi wrote:
>Hello ,
>        Check whether the password management and the authentication 
> management
>are using the same module for . If the authentication is using PAM 
>Kerberos and
>password change is using PAM Unix then that can be a problem .
>
>Regards
>Bandi
>
>
>Lucian Daniel Kafka wrote:
>
> > Hi folks!
> >
> > Today I have been faced with a strange problem.
> >
> > I have tried to ssh into a box (RH 7.1) as root (nothing unusual), and was
> > prompted with the following message:
> >
> > #You are required to change your password immediately (password aged)
> > #Warning: Your password has expired, please change it now
> > #Changing password for root
> > #(current) UNIX password:
> >
> > After entering the current password, the response was:
> >
> > #You must wait longer to change your password
> >
> > The corresponding /var/log/secure entries were:
> >
> > # Accepted password for ROOT from 203.98.95.236 port 1107
> > # fatal: PAM pam_chauthtok failed[20]: Authentication token 
> manipulation error
> >
> > The PAM rpm version is: pam-0.75-18.7
> >
> > So as a result it was impossible to log in at all. Anyone has seen this
> > before and knows what the problem is?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Luci
> >
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> > 
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>
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