From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 20 11: 7:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from priv-edtnes15-hme0.telusplanet.net (defout.telus.net [199.185.220.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3315B37B4B0 for ; Mon, 20 May 2002 11:06:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from win98 ([209.53.27.53]) by priv-edtnes15-hme0.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.01 201-253-122-122-101-20011014) with SMTP id <20020520180619.QIXN7713.priv-edtnes15-hme0.telusplanet.net@win98> for ; Mon, 20 May 2002 12:06:19 -0600 Message-ID: <001801c20027$9d31b400$351b35d1@win98> From: "Chris England" To: Subject: passwd problem Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 10:56:05 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am having difficulties changing passwords while logged in as a normal user. Any similar experiences? stab@absolute ~>uname -a FreeBSD absolute.best.ca 4.6-RC FreeBSD 4.6-RC #5: Thu May 16 19:37:27 PDT 2002 root@absolute.best.ca:/usr/src/sys/compile/oblivion i386 stab@absolute ~>passwd Changing local password for stab. Old password: passwd: Permission denied passwd: /etc/master.passwd: unchanged stab@absolute ~>smbpasswd Old SMB password: New SMB password: Retype new SMB password: machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the password change: Error was : RAP86: The specified password is invalid. Failed to change password for stab Cheers, Chris England To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message