Cannot change passwd

[Tonny Sejr Kromann]

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

[ConnieK]

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

[Tonny Sejr Kromann]

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 :)

[John Ferrara]

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