Re: Passwd fails - what went wrong?

Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 08 November 2004 09:55 am, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: No that is not the problem. The passwd itself fails and I cannot change passwd for any user. In fact the above transcript points this out. passwd: Authenticat

Re: Passwd fails - what went wrong?

On 08 Nov 2004, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 08 November 2004 09:55 am, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > > No that is not the problem. The passwd itself fails and I cannot change > > passwd for any user. In fact the above transcript points

Re: Passwd fails - what went wrong?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 08 November 2004 09:55 am, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > No that is not the problem. The passwd itself fails and I cannot change > passwd for any user. In fact the above transcript points this out. > > passwd: Authentication token manipulat

Re: Passwd fails - what went wrong?

Kam-Ming Siu wrote: Try adduser -G users lata May be the group "lata" does not exist as you adding the new user. As I know by default debian would not create individual group for new user. Regards, Ming On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 07:07:00PM -0600, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: Hi, I have not chan

Re: Passwd fails - what went wrong?

Try adduser -G users lata May be the group "lata" does not exist as you adding the new user. As I know by default debian would not create individual group for new user. Regards, Ming On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 07:07:00PM -0600, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > Hi, > > I have not changed passwd o

Passwd fails - what went wrong?

Hi, I have not changed passwd or added user for quite some time. This has been the case across several apt-get upgrades. Finally when I got to a point I wanted to setup an account, I ran into the following difficulty. lata [root] 54 > adduser lata Adding user lata... Adding new group l