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#1 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 10:34 AM

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

#2 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 10:34 AM

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, learner 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

With all respect, that was a VERY silly thing to do! Change the perms
back to 0400 now (read-only for root):

-r-------- 1 root sys 456 Jun 2 16:50 /etc/shadow

To answer your question: when changing another (local) user's password
as root, you don't get asked for the old password. Are you trying to
do this as root, or some other user?

HTH,

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#3 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 10:34 AM

Hey rich,

Thanks for all the help once again.
Yes I was as root, but the OS asked me for the new passwd twice and at
the end it said permission denied.
Any clues?

#4 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 10:34 AM

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

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