Re: can't passwd as root

Luke <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.arklinux.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
err umm

I performed this Saturday February 7 2004 12:02 am

> [[email protected] root]# passwd
> Changing password for user root.
> New UNIX password:
> Retype new UNIX password:
> passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
> [[email protected] root]#

I use samba and ksambaplugin.

On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 02:30:40 -0300, Pupeno 
<[email protected]> wrote:

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> So, nobody knows about this ? seems related to PAM, seems related to 
> Samba, I
> removed samba and samba-client (couldn't remove samba-common) and I've 
> got
> the following message:
> # passwd
> Changing password for user root.
> passwd: Module is unknown
> [[email protected] root]#
>
> Something doesn't smell good here.
>
> Thanks!
>
> On Friday 06 February 2004 03:52, Pupeno wrote:
>> After dist-upgrading (to kde 3.2 among other things) I got this error:
>> [[email protected] pupeno]$ su -
>> [[email protected] root]# passwd
>> Changing password for user root.
>> New UNIX password:
>> Retype new UNIX password:
>> Failed to modify entry for user root.
>>
>> passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
>> [[email protected] root]# tail 
>> /var/log/messages
>> Feb  6 03:51:19 localhost PAM_smbpass[7695]: password change failed for
>> user root
>>
>> Any ideas ?
>>
>> Thanks
>
> - --
> Pupeno: [email protected]
> http://www.pupeno.com
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