I have a server, with a trust relationship. Thanks to that, I can log in without being prompted for the password.But - I'm trying to Change the password, using passwd. I get:Unknown Errorpasswd: unknown user (uid=0)This is a NIS server, and typing passwd <account> brings up a prompt for the old password of <account>What should I check next? I only have a few days before the account locks out...
View 6 Replieshello i am trying to change my password, but when i type in the new password i get this:"The password is longer than 8 characters. On some systems, this can cause problems. You can truncate the password to 8 characters, or leave it as it is."my question is what kind of problem could i get and how can i change so i have to log in every time i start the computer?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI got during my last year of high school, and I recently installed Fedora 11. During the installation, I misunderstood one of the questions, and set my root password as what I wanted my account password. I want to go in and change it, because it's pretty easy to figure out and has me feeling really vulnerable, but it won't let me. I went to System-Administration-Root Password, entered my password, and put in a new one, but it won't let me click Change Root Password. The button is faded out and unclickable. I've tried several different passwords, and triple-checked each to make sure I typed it in correctly, but it won't work.
View 2 Replies View RelatedAfter we changed Root's password (using the passwd command), both the new and old password work. Any ideas why this could be happening?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI want to change the password complexity how do i do this?
View 9 Replies View RelatedForgot root password on fedora 10. Reboot into runlevel one and changed passwd and it said all tolkens updated. Typed exit and it didn't reboot and at login screen I logged in as other "root" and it didn't work with new password. So I redid the runlevel 1 and password change and typed init 6. It didn't work after that also. How to change fedora 10 root password if the old password is forgot?
View 5 Replies View RelatedHow do I change my default keyring password in F11?
The instructions from here no longer work:
Code:
$ yum search gnome-keyring-manager
Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit
Warning: No matches found for: gnome-keyring-manager
No Matches found
Longer story:
Somehow I got my keyring and login passwords out of sync. I went to change my login password using passwd on the terminal. I meant to change it to (let's say) "abcdef" but typed "abcdfe" twice. Realizing my mistake I tried to used passwd a second time to change it to "abcdef", but passwd complained that the new password was too similar to the old. So I used "su -c 'passwd myusername'" - I was able to change my login password but I guess this did not update my keyring password. I've tried changing my password using passwd as myself (not root) to something completelydifferent, but my keyring password remains the first password (e.g. "abcdfe").
I've changed my wireless network password and when I try to connect through my F10 machine, it continues to use the old password. I've changed it a number of times through the GUI that pops up (Wireless Network Authentication Required) and also through the Edit Connections GUI but they always revert back to the old password and disregard the new one.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am running Fedora 12 as Guest OS in VMware Player. I installed Fedora 12 by using a Prepackage VM . The root user name and p/w was supplied by the person who made this appliance. Is there way for me to change root user name and pw
View 2 Replies View RelatedI recently installed Fedora 13, Xfce, on my HP netbook. It's using AR9285. When i try to connect to my network with WPA enabled it will not work despite the password info being correct. I'm using a DI-514 router, with no updates to firmware. It only works, if I change the password, then use said password, then, when I disconnect, said password no longer works. WEP works just fine, open network works fine, why wont WPA-PSK work?
View 9 Replies View Relatedthis problem is becoming too frequent now:
a) User is created using our standard protocol on the NIS/YP server.
b) *Sometimes* : user is rejected at first login. Password not recognized.
c) When going to do a password reset, being root on the NIS/YP server something like this happens:
# passwd johndoe
Changing password for user johndoe.
New UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
NIS password could not be changed. << ------------- ERROR
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
The entry in the log doesn't help much: Sep 15 10:56:28 nisserver rpc. yppasswdd[2149]: update johndoe (uid=31742) from host 128. xxx194. xxx.xx rejected Sep 15 10:56:28 nisserver rpc. yppasswdd[2149]: Invalid password.
Notes:
1) A valid & strong password -known to work with other account- has been given.
2) The password is indeed changed in /etc/shadow, and the NIS/YP databases update (cd /var/yp; make) has not been done yet.
I know there is a different condition when the password is updated by the user from a Fedora host (long encoding using sha512 vs original md5 encoding in the server) - but this is happening locally on the CentOS-based server before having the user change the password. But even that has worked before with dozens of users.
A recent occurrence of the issue kept rejecting the original password chosen by the user until he decided to choose a different one. I have tried different from easy to elaborate passwords with no difference. This is just happening now with two new users: one of them reported that it worked just fine, the other is being rejected - they were created at the same time.
I have some users authenticated with AD and some locally, I want to allow only local users and root to change their password with passwd, not users authenticating over AD - so far I have this in my /etc/pam.d/passswd file
password sufficiant pam_unix.so shadow nullok audit
password required pam_echo.so
You CANNOT change your password using the Linux passwd command
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This works fine in allowing my normal users to change passwords and my AD users to be blocked, however, root cannot change passwords - the pam_rootok module seems only to work for auth - is there a way I can define root as a sufficiant check for password?
I have a problem with my fedora workstation.I am trying to change my ldap user password through passwd command.When I first create the user on ldap server, I use md5 and create the user password.This is the entry:
Code:
dn: uid=boo,ou=People,dc=linux,dc=gettolandia,dc=org
uid: boo
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I have squid server running FC7. i have created a ncsa authentication for windows user to use internet through squid proxy.
My problem is that the each created user should be able to change their password.
- Is there a way, using NCSA authentication, to allow users to change their passwords?
- Is there a way to use windows AD password for squid authentication. if so how?
I work on a product that have to start automatically an application. Running Opensuse 11.2 So in the inittab I have : 1:2345:once:/root/Velox/VeloxBoot.sh 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
In the VeloxBoot.sh, if I don't press any key, my application starts after a timeout. If the user presses a key I want to have a login prompt. Unfortunately, if I start /bin/login, I have a prompt with login, but once I enter my login, it does not ask for a password and it says wrong password
I'm really new to Linux so this will probably sound like a pretty naive question to most users, but how do you change the root password?To install Java, I have to type # su into Terminal,which then asks for the password.What's weird is that when I start typing a password, no characters show up. I don't know if this is supposed to happen or not.I've found a bunch of different sites on the Internet that explain how to change the root password, but none of them seem to work for my specific work station.
I've got Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit. In the GRUB boot menu, I can choose to boot normal or in recovery mode (I'm led to believe older versions don't have this option).I've tried typing # sudo passwrd into Terminal, but I already have a root password set up apparently, so I can't change it there.
everytime i try to vnc to my box, it pops up the keyring authentication, which is obviously a huge problem when logging in remotely.how do i change my keyring password to match my login password?
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View 8 Replies View RelatedHow to change pass all user VSFTPD via ftp client, web, ...? Gene6FTP could change by command: site pswd oldpass newpass. So, how can vsftpd do it?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a brand new install.I was doing some housekeeping and made a more sure password.Something went wonky and I got locked out.So I booted to root and changed the password.I'm back in the box now.But, my keyring password no longer matches my user password.So every time I want to do something I am asked for my old password.How do I change my keyring password to match my login password?
View 3 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to change password to value same as the previous password? I know this is a security flaw, but would like to know however. when I try this:
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How can I force passwd to use a simple password?I want to change my passwd & delete passwd history (if stored).I plan on creating a Virtual Appliance that uses another password besides my testing password.
View 5 Replies View Relatedi forgot root password and how to change the password
View 3 Replies View RelatedAt the RHEL prompt, I entered the standard user's username/password combo. Linux displays a message box stating:"Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator."Next, I entered "root" in the username field and entered the root password (which expired also--keep in mind that passwords are set to expire after x days). Linux displays a message box stating:"You are required to change your password immediately (password aged)."When prompted to "Enter current UNIX password", I entered the new password (was that the right thing to do?); Linux displays a message box stating:"The change of the authentication token failed. Please try again later or contact the system administrator."I rebooted the system and got into command line mode; somehow I logged in as "root" (don't know exactly how, but needed to change the password there). At the "#" prompt, I type "passwd root"; Linux displays the message "Changing password for user root", followed by the message "passwd: Authentication information cannot be recovered.
View 4 Replies View RelatedFor some reason passwd does not accept my current password as the old password when i try to change my password with the command passwd. Im not sure whats wrong with whatever linux uses to handle passwords but I cant even change passwords with the root user account. Is there any way to fix both of these problems.
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhen I login to my laptop, there's a dialog that asks me for a password. When I fill that in, it allows the network manager to access my wifi password and connect to the wifi.How can I change the password that network manager is asking for? It's kinda awkward to ask this question - I am not asking how to change my wifi password, but the password that comes up - Seahorse? I'm not sure what's used on Lubuntu.
View 11 Replies View RelatedOn my linux machine, I've enforced a password expiry policy every 45 days. So, today when I tried to ssh to the host, I get the typical "WARNING: Your password has expired". Fine, no big deal. But when I enter my new password and confirm, instead of giving me a login prompt, it tells me passwd all auth tokens updated successfully, then next line, "Connection to <host> closed". I can re-ssh back into that host and all is well from here, but it's a nuisance having to go through the extra step. Is this something in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config somewhere or perhaps a PAM config issue?
View 2 Replies View Relatedpam_auth_radius - Change the "Password:" prompt.Im currently working on getting a two-factor supplier working with my servers.Ive installed the pam_auth_radius.so and it works fine.HOWEVER.When I SSH to the server , I get this:
warning: Need basic cursor movement capability, using vt100
Keyboard-interactive:
Password:
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Such a simple question but no luck finding this answer in the forums or the internets.
How do I change my root ftp password via command line?
I think this is a bug but I wanted some feedback from the community before going to launchpad with this.
I had a new user call me up with a question on how he might change his password on his Ubuntu 9.10 system. I walked him through the steps of going to System->Administration->Users and Groups->Click on his user account->Properties->Change Password. Everything went well, but when he logged out and went to use his new password it clearly didn't reset the password. He had to use his old password to get into the system.
I verified it on my system as well - changing my password through the GUI does not actually change my password. The only way I was able to change it was through the passwd command, which is what I walked the user through.
So the question is: Is the GUI method (gnome/ubuntu) for changing one's password broken? Or did we miss something?
As a follow-up to this - it appears that changing a user's password through the command line with passwd does not change the password for gnome-keyring, which then asks the user for his/her password before NM can connect to wireless networks. The only password that this dialogue box will take is the user's old password - which could be really confusing to an end user.
Is there a better, more comprehensive way of changing one's password in Ubuntu that would update the keyring settings at the same time?