Re: authentication token manipulation error

[Peter Brown <pedro kuznets fas harvard edu>]

Mikkel,

Thank you very much for your suggestion.  I'll try that out first chance I
get. 

Peter



> Peter,
> 	Does the file /etc/shadow exhist?  The default install of Red
> Hat uses shadow passwords, and I think what may be happening in that
> qhen they try and change the password, there is no entry for the user in
> /etc/shadow, so pam has problems.  Backup /etc/shadow, and /etc/passwd.
> The delete /etc/shadow, and run pwconv to convert your password file to
> shadow passwords.  If this fixes the problem, you will also want to run
> grpconv.
> 
> Mikkel
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