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Re: passwd: User not known to the underlying authentication module (new)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael K. Johnson)
Mon Nov 18 17:36:10 1996
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From: "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@redhat.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 18 Nov 1996 16:53:01 EST."
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Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 17:26:23 -0500
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Skull writes:
>I know this has been asked before, but the solution I found in the mailing
>lists
>does not work for me... as any non-root user trying to run passwd, it gives me
>a 'passwd: User not known to the underlying authentication module' error.
>This is
>from a fresh Redhat 4.0 with all updates installed, and I still get this
>error.
>I know for sure I have the latest pam... any ideas anyone?? redhat crew????
Please post the output of
grep '^passwd' /etc/pam.conf
ls -l /etc/passwd
ls -l /etc/shadow
grep <non-root-user-name-that-doesn't-work> /etc/passwd
Thanks!
michaelkjohnson
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