Re: Not able to change password with passwd

2010-04-23 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Florian Pressler wrote: > Florian Pressler gmail.com> writes: >> >> Solution: Boot single user. Comment out the line in >> /etc/pam.d/common-password >> which loads pam_winbind.so. Run passwd again to set your root password, or to >> set the password of any user.

Re: Not able to change password with passwd

2010-04-23 Thread Florian Pressler
Florian Pressler gmail.com> writes: > Solution: Boot single user. Comment out the line in /etc/pam.d/common-password > which loads pam_winbind.so. Run passwd again to set your root password, or to > set the password of any user. Reboot, shell logins and the passwd command will > work again. Ju

Re: Not able to change password with passwd

2010-04-23 Thread Florian Pressler
Sjoerd Hardeman lorentz.leidenuniv.nl> writes: > Samba shouldn't do that. Strange indeed, but good to hear it's solved now. I got a mail from Grant, who found this thread by searching the web. He had the same problem, and thinks he found the reason for the issue. As for his request, I forward h

Re: Not able to change password with passwd

2010-03-28 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Sjoerd Hardeman schreef: >> Absolutely not. I wonder how this configuration came in place, >> considering I >> installed the server recently from scratch and edited >> configuration-files very >> carefully and tried to understand every single thing I changed >> anywhere. I >> installed samba, thoug

Re: Not able to change password with passwd

2010-03-22 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Florian Pressler schreef: Sjoerd Hardeman lorentz.leidenuniv.nl> writes: Mar 22 13:24:48 fp passwd[2001]: pam_winbind(passwd:chauthtok): valid_user: wbcGetpwnam gave WBC_ERR_DOMAIN_NOT_FOUND So you're trying to authenticate against a windows domain controller. Is that indeed your setup? Abs

Re: Not able to change password with passwd

2010-03-22 Thread Florian Pressler
Sjoerd Hardeman lorentz.leidenuniv.nl> writes: > > Mar 22 13:24:48 fp passwd[2001]: pam_winbind(passwd:chauthtok): valid_user: > > wbcGetpwnam gave WBC_ERR_DOMAIN_NOT_FOUND > So you're trying to authenticate against a windows domain controller. Is > that indeed your setup? Absolutely not. I won

Re: Not able to change password with passwd

2010-03-22 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Florian Pressler schreef: Hi there! 1) The output in /var/log/auth.log when I try changing the password is the following: Mar 22 13:24:48 fp passwd[2001]: pam_winbind(passwd:chauthtok): valid_user: wbcGetpwnam gave WBC_ERR_DOMAIN_NOT_FOUND So you're trying to authenticate against a windows doma

Re: Not able to change password with passwd

2010-03-22 Thread Florian Pressler
Hi there! 1) The output in /var/log/auth.log when I try changing the password is the following: Mar 22 13:24:48 fp passwd[2001]: pam_winbind(passwd:chauthtok): valid_user: wbcGetpwnam gave WBC_ERR_DOMAIN_NOT_FOUND 2) The output of lsattr /usr/bin/passwd is the following: airf...@fp:/$ lsattr /u

Re: Not able to change password with passwd

2010-03-22 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
also, make sure output of lsattr as below (only a wild guess here) # lsattr /usr/bin/passwd --- /usr/bin/passwd somebody/something might have done something to your system -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://debmal.my

Re: Not able to change password with passwd

2010-03-22 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Nairolf Relsserp schreef: Hi, recently I set up a new server using Debian testing. When I tried adding a new user a few days later, I noticed that it was impossible to set a password for the user. The error-message ist "System error" together with the information that the password is unchan