SUMMARY: Urgent: /bin/passwd: Permission denied

From: Lars Hecking <lhecking_at_nmrc.ucc.ie>
Date: Tue Dec 02 2003 - 10:53:03 EST
I wrote:
> # whoami
> root
> # passwd user
> New Password: 
> Re-enter new Password: 
> Permission denied
> #
> 
>  What could be the problem? I tried to truss the process, but couldn't
>  spot anything useful?
> 
>  This is on our NIS server, running Solaris 9 8/03.

 Thanks to:
 Nicolas Figaro
 Chad Graham
 Daniel Jaime
 Larye Parkins
 David M Dennis
 Patrick O'Reilly
 Ed Rolison
 Matthias Wanke

 The suggestions were:
 - check /etc/pam.conf (unchanged from the default install)
 - make sure there is one, and only one, entry for the user in both
   passwd and shadow
 - make sure that passwd and shadow are consistent with each other
   (see pwconv(1m))
 - try the nispasswd command (which is actually for nis+ :)
 - try 'passwd -r files'
 - make sure yppasswdd is running

 Turns out yppasswdd was not running. Thanks to Ed Rolison for the
 suggestion.
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Received on Tue Dec 2 10:58:38 2003

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