Unable to change password for User or Root

[patrick coutinho]

Hi,

i am having a problem with an HP UX 11i server. Tried to login with a username and it popped up a message (attached below)
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HP-UX dove B.11.11 U 9000/800 (tb)

login: ipatrick
Password:
Last successful login for ipatrick: Sun Jun 20 11:16:56 WAT-3 2004 on pts/ta
Last unsuccessful login for ipatrick: Sun Jun 20 12:13:45 WAT-3 2004 on pts/tb
Your password has expired.
Choose a new password.
Changing password for ipatrick
Old password:
Sorry.
Login aborted due to no password.

Wait for login exit: .
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Am having the same problem even when i try to login a root from the console. This system is trusted.

How do i get out of this. If possible i would like to do this without booting the server.

Please help.

Thanks in advance.

Patrick

[Victor Fridyev]

Hi,

Probably you have user patrick in the local /etc/passwd and on NIS server. You have to decide which of them should change its password. For the local patric: stop nis.client and define a new password. For "NIS" patrick change the password on the NIS master and forward it by /var/yp/ypmake.
Look at /etc/nsswitch.conf on the client.

HTH

[Bharat Katkar · Accepted solution]

Patrik,
Go thr' the attached doc.
Hope that helps.

Regards,

[patrick coutinho]

Thanks Bharat,

got the problem solved. For the benefit of everyone out there, in case u have setup a root password of more than 8 characters BEFORE converting to TRUSTED system, login to root using the original root password (more than 8 characters) and then when the question pops up to change password use ONLY the FIRST 8 CHARACTERS of the original password as the "original password". This will work.

This may help some one out there.

Rgds

Pat