topic Re: Cannot change passwd in Operating System - HP-UX

Cannot change passwd

Tonny Sejr Kromann — Wed, 03 Oct 2001 13:14:47 GMT

Hi
On 11.0 I cannot change the root-pass.
I can login as root, write passwd, it asks for old pass and I type the same as I logged in with, then it says Sorry:

dk002:/#passwd root
Changing password for root
Old password:
Sorry.
dk002:/#

How can I resolve that?

Regards
Tonny

Re: Cannot change passwd

ConnieK — Thu, 04 Oct 2001 11:33:41 GMT

Tonny,

HPUX 11 will onlt accept an 8-character long password for root. If your root password is longer than that, just enter the first 8 characters and the password change prompt:>>> Old password:

I hope this works for you!

Connie

Re: Cannot change passwd

Tonny Sejr Kromann — Fri, 12 Oct 2001 08:31:48 GMT

Only 0'es were returned from the command.
But resetting the password helped.

The password were more than 8 chars, but I had no trouble changing it on other similar servers.

Thank for your help :)

Re: Cannot change passwd

John Ferrara — Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:58:15 GMT

This procedure saved my ***! More than once!