Regarding the Password Reset

[Tvs]

Hi all,


when Iam trying to resetting my password , the system is giving an error message like iam trying to reset the password with old password.is it possbile to override this setting

thanks in advance

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1]

Hi TVS,

Is NIS involved ?

Robert-Jan

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi,


see man passwd for more info.

can you try using the root user and do something like:

#passwd

hope this helps!
regards
yogeeraj

[Pedro Cirne]

Hi,

If you have NIS in place and you don't know the "old" password, the only option I know to reset the password is to delete the user, update NIS, create the user again, set password, and replicate NIS....

Enjoy :)

Pedro

[Tvs]

hai,

No Nis, and root also unable to reset the password to the same

[Pedro Cirne]

Hi,

Please post here the commands/output:

Login as root:

#passwd

Is this a trusted system?

Pedro

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1]

run pwck
# pwck

# awk -F: '{print $1 " " $3 " " $4 " " $5}' /etc/passwd | sort

and check for duplicates usernames and userid's.

# file /usr/bin/passwd
# file /sbin/passwd

Try with the /sbin/passwd to change the password.

Robert-Jan

[Tvs]

problem got solved