I'm new to SUSE Linux 10 and I am having a problem with a local user account. Here is the scenario,Logged in successfully to a putty session as the "user" and try to change the password :
passwd "user"
(current) UNIX password:
passwd: Authentication failure
I am unable to change the password as the user but i am able to log into the server with the same user.
for some reason the password just won't change, maybe I have the command wrong? Here is what I am doing and the error.
[root@server~]# useradd testuser
[root@server~]# passwd testuser
Changing password for user support.
passwd: Failed preliminary check by password service
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