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Thanks Perderabo. It worked.

The permissions are set as follows:

-r-sr-sr-x 3 root sys 15760 Sep 10 15:45 nispasswd
-r-sr-sr-x 3 root sys 15760 Sep 10 15:45 passwd
-r-sr-sr-x 3 root sys 15760...

I get :

% grep passwd /etc/nsswitch.conf
passwd: files

Additional information : The password is changed normally if the "passwd" command is run by root (through "su root" or "su root --". It...

The username does exist. The problem happens when the user logs in and try to change its password through the command passwd.

Here is a better description of what happens :

% passwd username...

When trying to change the password with the command "passwd" it returns that the user does not exist.

passwd <USER>
passwd: changing password for <USER>
passwd: <USER> does not exist

This is...