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Old 03-05-2015
Unable to change password using root user
Hi,

I tired changing password for mqm user in linux server with root user.
But still I couldn't able to login mqm user with changed password.

Can anyone please help on this.

Code:
[root@huxccc111 ~]# passwd mqm

Thanks,
Anusha
# 2  
Old 03-05-2015
Any error msg? Did you try the old password as well? Is the user locked?
# 3  
Old 03-05-2015
Hi RudiC,

I didn't get any errors. It said as below

passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.

How to check if the user is locked.

Thanks.

---------- Post updated at 06:33 AM ---------- Previous update was at 06:30 AM ----------

Hi RudiC,

The user is not locked.

Code:
passwd -S mqm
mqm PS 2015-03-04 1 90 14 -1 (Password set, MD5 crypt.)

Thanks.
# 4  
Old 03-05-2015
What's the S in "PS"?

---------- Post updated at 12:50 ---------- Previous update was at 12:45 ----------

Was the user able to login before?
# 5  
Old 03-05-2015
For info:-
Quote:
-S This will output a short information about the status of the password for a given account. Available to root user only.
Moving on, what message do you get when you try to log on as account mqm? There are several things that could go wrong but without a message we won't know which to consider.


Please paste the error in CODE tags.


Thanks, in advance,
Robin
 
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