On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Rilindo Foster wrote:
> Friends,
>
> We recently setup Red Hat 6.2 (server installed) and yesterday I had to go
> change the root password via linux single mode (the client couldn't su to
> root). At any rate, here is the problem.
>
> The client can't login with the user password that he set; however, he can
> login via the root password. So, when he telnet to box and login with:
>
> joeuser
>
> and types the password he is supposed to connect, he gets an error. However,
> login with the root password (with the regular user) logs in him.
>
> At that point, he tried to change the password for user. No success. When
> entering the new password, he gets the message:
>
> Password unchanged.
>
> So he su to root and tried to change the password from there. No go. Still
> logins with the root password.
>
> One would that it is an isolated problem. Except that when I add in another
> user (with the password I specified), I couldn't log with that password I
> choose with that user - but I was able to login with the root password.
>
> It is as if the root password is linked with the users on that machine. Any
> ideas what is going on?
>
> (BTW, passwd does have the SETGID correctly set).
>
>
> Rilindo Foster
>
I would verify the password command, and then the PAM package to make
sure they are still the origional commands.
rpm -V passwd
rpm -V pam
There are probably others to chekc, but this is a start. Also take a
look at /etc/passwd.
Mikkel
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