HP/UX 11.0 peculiarities

[Jack Werner]

Hi,

We have just installed HP/UX 11.0 on an HP 9000 A-Class server. It contains more and later paths than previous HP/UX 11.0 installs.

1) We can no longer change a local user's password.
> passwd -r files -F /etc/passwd oracle
enter new password:********
confirm password:********
....produces error "Unexpected failure" with no more info.

2) email sent from this system produces "This message uses a character set that is not supported by the Internet Service."

Perhaps someone can shed some light on these peculiarities. Our other HP/UX 11.0 systems do not exhibit this behaviour.

Thanks in advance

[Brad Anderson_1]

For question 2:

modify /usr/share/lib/mailx.rc by adding

set charset=us-ascii

[Brad Anderson_1]

Try /bin/passwd on your command line.

[jaja_2]

Q1: you have blank lines in /etc/passwd. Erase it!

[jaja_2]

Q2 : you may have blank lines in /etc/passwd file. Erase it!

[Santosh Nair_1]

Use /usr/sbin/pwck to verify your password file.

-Santosh