[Novalug] Unable to change roots password

Nick Danger nick at hackermonkey.com
Thu Jun 19 15:28:51 EDT 2008


I can connect to this server, and I can su to root (CentOS box) but 
oddly I cannot change roots password.

[root at host ~]# passwd
Changing password for user root.
New UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: Authentication failure
[root at host ~]#

Anyone ever seen that before?

Nick




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