Re: Passwd fails - what went wrong?

[Ramasubramanian Ramesh]

Kam-Ming Siu wrote:
Try 

adduser -G users lata
May be the group "lata" does not exist as you adding the new user. As I
know by default debian would not create individual group for new user.
Regards,
Ming
On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 07:07:00PM -0600, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote:
 

Hi,
I have not changed passwd or added user for quite some time. This has 
been the case across several apt-get upgrades. Finally when I got to a 
point I wanted to setup an account, I ran into the following difficulty.

  lata [root] 54 > adduser lata
  Adding user lata...
  Adding new group lata (1002).
  Adding new user lata (1002) with group lata.
  Creating home directory /home/lata.
  Copying files from /etc/skel
  passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
  adduser: `/usr/bin/passwd lata' returned error code 10.  Aborting.
  Cleaning up.
  Removing directory `/home/lata'
  Removing user `lata'.
  Removing group `lata'.
  groupdel: group lata does not exist
I suspect one of the upgrades have subtly changed something. I am not 
sure what it is. All other things (that I tried) seem to work. Can you 
tell me what is broken? How to fix it?

Thanks and Regards
Ramesh

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No that is not the problem. The passwd itself fails and I cannot change 
passwd for any user. In fact the above transcript points this out.

passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
adduser: `/usr/bin/passwd lata' returned error code 10.  Aborting.
It adds the group alright. It is the passwd setting that fails. It is 
some PAM setup issue. I do not know for sure if it is. If so what do I 
need to fix it.

Thanks and Regards
Ramesh

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