Bug 119841
| Summary: | passwd: Authentication token manipulation error | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Alex Belash <belal> |
| Component: | passwd | Assignee: | Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.3 | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-05-28 12:18:29 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Red Hat Linux 7.3 is no longer supported, does this occur with Red Hat Linux 9? |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Opera 7.0 [en] Description of problem: passwd fails to update passwd file and fails with following error: passwd: Authentication token manipulation error this occur on all accounts using RH7.3 Pam module as shipped with distribution Server package from RH. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): passwd-0.67-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.login root 2.passwd username 3.wait for bad result Actual Results: root@work /root]# passwd oper Changing password for user oper passwd: Authentication token manipulation error Expected Results: [root@work /root]# passwd oper Changing password for user oper New UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully Additional info: Because I can't change a users passwd I have to use the same empty passwords for several users...this is a big security problem.