lckpwdf permission denied

[Carlos Munoz Lopez]

Hi guys. I'm having troubles with users trying to access to the server. I get the following error:

Unable to ser uid/gid

And then it closes the connection.

With new users who are going to access the server for the first time, the system ask them for new password, in this case, I get the following error:

lckpwdf: Permission denied
Cannot obtain lock for /etc/.pwd.lock
audswitch: Not owner

I have no problem with root account.

I don't know what could be happening. I think it has something to do with file permissions, but I don't know what files. I would like some help on this problem.

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Carlos,

What are the perms & ownership on the /usr/bin/passwd file? Should be:

-r-sr-xr-x root bin

Also /etc/.pwd.lock should be:

-r-------- root sys

HTH,
Jeff

[Jeff Schussele]

Also check /usr/lib/libpam.1 - should be:

-r-xr-xr-x bin bin

Rgds,
Jeff

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Carlos,

Try,

fuser /etc/.pwd.lock

If it lists any process, kill those processes and then retry login / password changes.

Hope this helps.

Regds