Hi Pavan, could you do me a favour and forward this mail to pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx? My mail was bounced back because I'm either disabled or unkown for some reason although I've subscribed (When trying to subscribe again I'm getting a privacy alert..) Sorry for the inconvinience. I've been trying to solve this for about 2 days now. Maybe someone just has a small hint what to try next. I'm getting this on my vserver: [root@nixos:~]# passwd root Changing password for root. passwd: Permission denied [root@nixos:~]# cat /etc/pam.d/passwd auth include common account include common password include common session include common [root@nixos:~]# cat /etc/pam.d/common # auth sufficient /no-such-path/lib/security/pam_ldap.so auth sufficient /nix/store/22w3l41qxszyisqn09pjad8vc93kwr49-pam_unix2-2.1/lib/security/pam_unix2.so debug auth required pam_deny.so debug # account optional /no-such-path/lib/security/pam_ldap.so account required /nix/store/22w3l41qxszyisqn09pjad8vc93kwr49-pam_unix2-2.1/lib/security/pam_unix2.so debug # password sufficient /no-such-path/lib/security/pam_ldap.so password sufficient /nix/store/22w3l41qxszyisqn09pjad8vc93kwr49-pam_unix2-2.1/lib/security/pam_unix2.so debug # session optional /no-such-path/lib/security/pam_ldap.so session required /nix/store/22w3l41qxszyisqn09pjad8vc93kwr49-pam_unix2-2.1/lib/security/pam_unix2.so debug syslog: Mar 18 12:26:41 nixos passwd[7919]: pam_unix2(passwd:chauthtok): pam_sm_chauthtok() called Mar 18 12:26:41 nixos passwd[7919]: pam_unix2(passwd:chauthtok): username=[root] Mar 18 12:26:41 nixos passwd[7919]: User root: Permission denied strace output looks like this: http://rafb.net/p/7jq2vb43.html Any idea how to deubg this any further? I've exactly the same setup on a local machine which works fine? I've even tried debugging passwd for that reason. However I can't get debugging symbols.. I appreciate any idea which can help me finding the problem. Sincerly Manc Weber _______________________________________________ Pam-list mailing list Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list