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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!coconut!usenet From: brettc@aloha.com (Brett Collars) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: passwd problems - cannot change passwords Date: 28 Oct 1995 15:17:41 GMT Organization: EPOCHSYS Lines: 19 Message-ID: <46thil$ch1@news.aloha.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: poki-09.poi.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.6+ Every time users try to change passwords using passwd it complains: > passwd Changing local password for testacct. Old password: New password: Retype new password: passwd: updating passwd database passwd: password changed elsewhere. no changes made I run pwd_mkdb on /etc/master.passwd - exits normal. Is this a kerberos problem ? Brett