UK Jaiswal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In a linux box, I had a user by the name of user1. I had to change the
> name of user1 to newuser1, so I changed the entry of user1 in passwd
> file and group file. Having done this I tried to change the password of
> newuser1 by "passwd newuser1" but I got the foll error message:
>
> linux2:~# passwd newuser1
> passwd: Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info.
>
> Could somebody pls point out what could be wrong in what I did. Later on
> I also tried by replacing the entries of user1 with newuser1 in
> /etc/gshadow file but in vain.
>
I think you should have edited /etc/shadow instead. /etc/gshadow is
the group shadow password file.
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