topic Re: Authentication token manipulation error in Operating System - Linux

Authentication token manipulation error

Gerard Powell — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 04:46:30 GMT

After I have set the passwd aging for a particular user "cord" and tried to login, It requested to change the passwd. When I type the passwd it give an error: "Authentication token manipulation error".
The sequence is listed below

Could somebody help please.

[root@devtest ~]# passwd -n 2 -x 15 -w 3 -i 99999 cord
Adjusting aging data for user cord.
passwd: Success

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant)
Kernel 2.6.9-5.ELsmp on an i686
login: cord
Password:
You are required to change your password immediately (password aged)
Changing password for cord
(current) UNIX password:

Authentication token manipulation error

Re: Authentication token manipulation error

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 08:55:46 GMT

Shalom from Chicago Gerard ,

Usually this occurs due to a missing entry for the user in /etc/passwd /etc/shadow or /etc/group

Check the consistency of those files.

SEP

Re: Authentication token manipulation error

Ivan Ferreira — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:41:58 GMT

What do you get in /var/log/secure? Are you trying loging in using secure shell?