You have a corrupt shadow or passwd file.
One of your users is missing fields in either the passwd file or the
shadow file.
Either delete all users and start again, or manually go through the file
looking for extra or missing :'s
I have duplicated this error.
useradd testy
passwd testy
<enter password>
vi /etc/shadow
remove a field (including the : delimiter)
su - testy
passwd testy
enter old password
drop out with error
--
Steve.
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Meadows, Andrew wrote:
One of the accounts I created was for myself, a simple user account with
user group permisions.
I enter the passwd command
It prompts for my old password I enter it
Then I enter my new password 2x's and I get that error message. If I
exit and relog in I still have the old password.
Tried to sync up the shadow file with the passwd file with pwconv and no
change.
-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vladimir Kosovac
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 10:35 PM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: passwd
Every user can change his/her own password, the only difference from
passwd command used by root is that they are prompted to enter existing
password first.
That being said, error sounds like this first step does not happen OK or
new password is not enterred twice. Shot in the dark but there isn't lot
of information given to work with.
One of the possible problems may be a different pwd hash in /etc/shadow
file, so it doesn't match the password that user enters in the prompt
for existing one. Still only a guess, though.
Rgds, V
On 8/26/05, Carl Reynolds <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Meadows, Andrew wrote:
... 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 have never worked on a Red Hat system where anyone but root could
change the password. I think this is a standard security precaution
built into Linux.
Carl.
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