I booted up Sun V240 server with boot cdrom -s using the Sun Operating System CD. I now am at the # prompt and su - root . The system will not allow me to set password for root. Get following error:
# passwd
New Password: xxxxxxxx
Re-enter new Password: xxxxxxxx
passwd: Unexpected failure. ... (4 Replies)
We used to have a ftp user id with no telnet session allowed in server side.
We used this ftp user id in script by transferring file from client to Server.
Currently we need to implement sftp to replace ftp.
We have tested few round and working fine by using sftp with normal user id (allow... (2 Replies)
sm860 IS the owner of the files below,but yet sm860 cannot change the ownership to bpt3a1.Please let me know why ?
See below for details
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sm860@unixs741_DEV:/usr/gdp/home/ftp/bpt3a1/incoming/ahdb/T5/pcasav/daily $ ls -l pcasav*
-rw-r--r-- 1 sm860 gdpintegrators 821 Sep 21 16:15... (8 Replies)
i'm trying to change passwd remotely in unix (solaris) and tried using "expect" but it is not working.
Any ideas to change the passwd remotely using a shell script? (1 Reply)
Hello All,
I am trying to change a user passwd (one time password):
cat /tmp/passwd
mnop1234
mnop1234
#passwd abcd < /tmp/passwd
(for some reason, it is not able to input the password from /tmp/passwd and comes back with "New Password: ")
Is there a work around except using "expect".
... (1 Reply)
Hello All,
How to force user to change his login passwd on his first login in solaris 10 ?
while adding user do we need to set the password in theis case?? (7 Replies)
Besides doing some shell-script which loops through /etc/passwd, I was wondering if there was some command that would tell me, like an enhanced version of getent.
The Operating system is Solaris 10 (recent-ish revision) using Sun DS for LDAP. (5 Replies)
Hi All,
From Audit point of view, I need to add a script to my production Solaris servers. That should be able to mail me, if any user is added or removed.
That means, I should get a mail, what user is deleted or added in /etc/passwd, i.e. if there is a change in this file, I should be... (8 Replies)
bash-3.00# passwd sami
New Password:
Re-enter new Password:
Dec 14 00:07:43 hack passwd: passwdutil: crypt_gensalt Invalid argument
passwd: Unexpected failure. Password database unchanged.
Permission denied
i got this error while i am change the user(sami) passwd. (3 Replies)
Have an issue with a user or root changing the user's passwd.
We run the passwd command and a complex passwd is entered a message is displayed,
"passwd is based on a dictionary word."
We do have a dictionary file and I know for a fact the complex passwd is not in the list. This happens on a... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: solizkewl
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
vino-passwd
vino-passwd(1) User Commands vino-passwd(1)NAME
vino-passwd - change vino login password
SYNOPSIS
vino-passwd [--help] [--version]
DESCRIPTION
vino-passwd is a command line tool to change the vino login password.
OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options for the
command vino-passwd is included below.
-?, --help display this help and exit
-v, --version output version information and exit
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWgnome-remote-desktop |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface stability |Volatile |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO vino-server(1), vino-preferences(1), attributes(5), gnome-std-options(5)NOTES
Written by Halton Huo, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2008.
SunOS 5.11 15 Aug 2008 vino-passwd(1)