[Novalug] Unable to change roots password

Mark Smith mark@winksmith.com
Thu Jun 19 18:02:32 EDT 2008


first stop: what do the logs say

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 03:28:51PM -0400, Nick Danger wrote:
> I can connect to this server, and I can su to root (CentOS box) but 
> oddly I cannot change roots password.
> 
> [root@host ~]# passwd
> Changing password for user root.
> New UNIX password:
> Retype new UNIX password:
> passwd: Authentication failure
> [root@host ~]#
> 
> Anyone ever seen that before?

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Mark Smith
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mark@tux.org



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