On Jul 10, 8:49 pm, learner <Zabal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello experts,
> I am facing an issue where i cannot create a password for the account
> I just created.
> I used the useradd command to create a user, but weh I used passwd
> command the os asked for new passwd and retype passwd. Once I did
> enter the passwd it says permission denied. I tried by changing the
> chmod on the shadow file to 777, but that did not help either. Just
> for the side note we are not using LDAP or NIS.
> Please help asap.
> Thanks

What command did you exactly type? Could you send the output along
with the commands you used?
I am sure you used:

root# passwd <new_user> (enter)

Cheers
Khurram