Changing password on linux machine hangs

M qassair at gmail.com
Tue Apr 3 18:03:00 EDT 2007


Yep. Tried that. Same behavior. Its not just one linux machine, its
all linux machines that do this. So its something thats set
environment wide...I've ruled out the firewall...not sure what else it
could be.

Thx

Q

On 4/3/07, Christopher D. Clausen <cclausen at acm.org> wrote:
> M <qassair at gmail.com> wrote:
> > We use Active Directory to create User accounts and make the person
> > change his/her password the first time he/she logs on to any of our
> > machines (linux or windows). Changing password on the Windows machines
> > works just fine but no one can change their passwords on a linux
> > machine. Not just the first time, but ever.
> >
> > [user at machine ~]$ passwd
> > Changing password for user username.
> > Kerberos 5 Password:
> > New UNIX password:
> > Retype new UNIX password:
> >
> > After this it just hangs. The password never gets changed. i found
> > pre-authentication failure kadmin/changepw...failure code 0x19. in the
> > kdc admin-server event log which corresponds to "additional
> > pre-authentication required." I googled that but couldn't find a way
> > to fix that failure. I don't see anything in the logs on the linux
> > machine that I'm trying to change my password on.
>
> Have you tired using the "kpasswd" command instead of "passwd"?
>
> <<CDC
>
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