passwd fails when trying to change user passwords
When I try to use passwd to change a user's password I get the following result every time:
[root@www ~]# passwd username Changing password for user username. New UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: Authentication failure [root@www ~]# This only occurred after I upgraded from FC2 to FC3 and migrated all my /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow over from backups I had. What is wrong? I think it's something with PAM, but I'm not sure. Every user has a /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow entry. authconf is setup to use MD5 and Shadow passwords only. |
the same occurs to me in a flesh install. I still have no clue what's going on here
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FC3 passwd Authentication issues
I finally gave up on it and went back to FC2. Everything works fine, now.
Another problem with FC3 I ran into was with my USB HP DeskJet 960c. After installing the latest kernels for FC3, it would hang on kudzu during bootup. Anyone else had similar problems with FC3? |
fwiw, if you turn off selinux in the system-config-securitylevel applet and reboot, it works. alternatively, you can put selinux=0 on the kernel line in /etc/grub.conf
unfortunate, but i get the impression that selinux polices aren't quite cooked for general usage yet. |
I'm not infront of the machine right now, but my selinux is set to warm only. Also, I installed a few minutes ago Webmin and I was able to change the passwords throw webmin.
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