topic Password in Operating System - Tru64 Unix

Password

Qcheck — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:57:41 GMT

When one of the users tried to change the password on Tru64 node, he got error as "different lengths for encrypted passwords". Does anyone know what causes this error?

Re: Password

Ivan Ferreira — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:59:12 GMT

Is that the exact error message? Are they changing with "passwd" command or with a custom program/script? I never saw that message.

Re: Password

Ann Majeske — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:34:44 GMT

More questions:

What version?
What patch kit?

Is the system running Enhanced Security?

Is the user changing the password for his user account or some other password?

Re: Password

Kapil Jha — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:51:03 GMT

Hi,
This msg is coming when u are changing passwd from that user or from root.
Check to change from root.
BR,
Kapil

Re: Password

Pieter 't Hart — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:36:28 GMT

tru64 can use a cleartext passwd file and an encrypted (hashed) passwd file.

the hashed passwd file can only be modified with the normal passwd tools
the cleartext passwd file can be edited by a privileged user (mostly root)

Maybe there is a mismatch between the cleartext passwdfile (/etc/passwd) and the hashed passwdfile.

check if /etc/passwd.dir and /etc/passwd.pag exists on your server to determine if the hashed passwd is used.

for further reference see "man mkpasswd"