topic Re: lckpwdf permission denied in Operating System - HP-UX

lckpwdf permission denied

Carlos Munoz Lopez — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:08:59 GMT

Hi guys. I'm having troubles with users trying to access to the server. I get the following error:

Unable to ser uid/gid

And then it closes the connection.

With new users who are going to access the server for the first time, the system ask them for new password, in this case, I get the following error:

lckpwdf: Permission denied
Cannot obtain lock for /etc/.pwd.lock
audswitch: Not owner

I have no problem with root account.

I don't know what could be happening. I think it has something to do with file permissions, but I don't know what files. I would like some help on this problem.

Re: lckpwdf permission denied

Jeff Schussele — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:17:14 GMT

Hi Carlos,

What are the perms & ownership on the /usr/bin/passwd file? Should be:

-r-sr-xr-x root bin

Also /etc/.pwd.lock should be:

-r-------- root sys

HTH,
Jeff

Re: lckpwdf permission denied

Jeff Schussele — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:29:50 GMT

Also check /usr/lib/libpam.1 - should be:

-r-xr-xr-x bin bin

Rgds,
Jeff

Re: lckpwdf permission denied

Sanjay_6 — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:29:57 GMT

Hi Carlos,

Try,

fuser /etc/.pwd.lock

If it lists any process, kill those processes and then retry login / password changes.

Hope this helps.

Regds