On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 09:16:35 -0500, Josh Welch <tclug at joshwelch.com> wrote:
> So I've got a database server at work that the users have never had to
> change passwords on. Now I need to make users change their passwords on
> this system, but when a user invokes passwd they get this error:
> passwd: Authentication token manipulation error

Ive seen this error when the shadow file is not set up correctly. 
Make sure there are no weird lines in there, and they all have the
correct number of fields.  Also, check /etc/pam.d/passwd and make sure
that looks sane


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Jay Kline
http://www.slushpupie.com/

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