user not able to change their own password
K. K. Fung
reasons was because other than root, nobody could change password. The system
would prompt for the new password, the user would type in their password,
the system would response with a 'invalid login id or password' message.
I had compare the /bin/passwd, /etc/passwd, the /etc/security and the
/etc/security/* with my other working AIX machines. By now, you probably have
figured out by now the upgrade did not fix the problem.
Any idea? HELP!
TIA
Tom F. Randall
admin entered some login ids containing metacharacters,
specifically the asterisk '*'. The /etc/passwd as well as all
of the files in /etc/security/* get mucked up and need to be
manually cleaned up. Some Unix systems, where the create and
change programs were different, absolutely hated uppercase
characters and choke accordingly on a password change, but I
haven't seen the program mismatch problem in AIX... yet.
Received from K. K. Fung, the following:
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Gerhard den Hollander
>> I had recently upgrade one of the AIX machines from 3.2.1 to 3.2.5. One of th
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>> reasons was because other than root, nobody could change password. The system
>> would prompt for the new password, the user would type in their password,
>> the system would response with a 'invalid login id or password' message.
We used to have this problem because the GROUP id of the user had problems.
(cannot remember what was the problem, either the GIDs were too high (1000
and higher) or the GIDs didn't map to a group .
Dunno if this helps, but it's worth checking
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Laurent Dullaart
>
> I had recently upgrade one of the AIX machines from 3.2.1 to 3.2.5. One of the
> reasons was because other than root, nobody could change password. The system
> would prompt for the new password, the user would type in their password,
> the system would response with a 'invalid login id or password' message.
> /etc/security/* with my other working AIX machines. By now, you probably have
> figured out by now the upgrade did not fix the problem.
> Any idea? HELP!
> TIA
The things to do:
- Check the passwd program. It should suid for root. To be exact:
-r-s--x--x root security
- Check /etc/passwd for anomalies (like links etc)
- Look at the administrative flag for all users. It should be of
- run a mkpasswd.
If there is anything you didn't try, try it. Otherwise I wouldn't
know.
Charles J. Lyon
I believe they can't change their passwords:
If the user's flags entry in the /etc/security/passwd file is assigned the
ADMIN attribute then only the root user can change this password.
(From IBM Info database - passwd command) HTH
Check smit users to see.
I had recently upgrade one of the AIX machines from 3.2.1 to 3.2.5. One of the
>reasons was because other than root, nobody could change password. The system
>would prompt for the new password, the user would type in their password,
>the system would response with a 'invalid login id or password' message.
>I had compare the /bin/passwd, /etc/passwd, the /etc/security and the
>/etc/security/* with my other working AIX machines. By now, you probably have
>figured out by now the upgrade did not fix the problem.
>Any idea? HELP!
>TIA
>
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Chuck Lyon - Tech. Support - Southeast Regional Data Center
Florida International University - State of Fla. Univ. System
Miami FL 33199 Ph [305]348-2912
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