Any idea why now, out of nowhere, we get this error when changing a password for a user on the system? “Authentication token manipulation error” Thanks,
Did you recently change the pam settings in /etc/pam.d? Are the permissions for /etc/shadow correct? Is the user actually a local user and not a remote user (e.g. AD)?
They are local users. No change to PamD…thanks,
Did you somehow lose the SUID permission bit or SElinux context for /usr/bin/passwd ? Should be:
-rwsr-xr-x. 1 root root system_u:object_r:passwd_exec_t:s0
No, that looks good.
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It looks like this only happens when we set the login for that user to force a password change. chage -d 0 username. This used to work until now…thoughts?
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If you look into /etc/shadow, in the particular line of the user, is there a exclamation mark (!) before the first “$”?
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