From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.73 (Macintosh; I; PPC) passwd fails to update passwd file and fails with following error: passwd: Authentication token manipulation error this doesn't occur on root passwd only on "normal" users using RH7.0 Pam module as shipped with distribution Server package from RH. Using shadow passwords not yp. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.su root 2.passwd username 3.enter new passwd 4.wait for bad result Actual Results: [root@gabriel /root]# passwd cisanctuary Changing password for user cisanctuary New UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: Authentication token manipulation error Expected Results: [root@gabriel /root]# passwd New UNIX password: BAD PASSWORD: it is based on a dictionary word Retype new UNIX password: passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully Because I can't change a users passwd I have to use the same passwd for several users...this is a big security problem. also crypt is missing from the distribution ( i bought the Server Software from Redhat Packaged) I can't use that to change the passwd either.
Please apply the errata from http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-120.html, which should fix this problem. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18055 ***
I have exactly the same problem with my box. I've applied pam-0.72-37.i386.rpm, which hasn't fixed this.