Unexpected failure. Password file unchanged.

[Nitsulenko Sergey]

Excuse me.
HP-UX 11.0.
I can not change the password for root. Earlier such not there was. The command passwd is terminated with message:
Unexpected failure. Password file unchanged.

[T G Manikandan · Accepted solution]

check the consistency of the password file using
#pwck

revert on the output

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1]

Hi,

Take a look at next link,

http://bizforums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/0,,0x6c918cc5e03fd6118fff0090279cd0f9,00.html

Hope it helps,

Robert-Jan.

[CCIL]

Is your system is in trusted mode , if yes the reconvert the system to untrusted mode using tsconvert -r & then try.

[Cheryl Griffin]

pwck is a good start. If there is an invalid entry it will help determine the problem.

Also look for unseen characters:
# cat /etc/passwd |vis

And verify that permissions on /etc/passwd are correct.

Is the system trusted? Look for /tcb. If this directory exists, the system is trusted.

[Nitsulenko Sergey]

Thank You!
pwck has show the bad line in file, I has corrected.

[Nitsulenko Sergey]

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