Janyne, It might be a console rights problem... I can run passwd from the command line as a user with no problems and I can run userpasswd as root.
Jon Carnes On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 15:51, Janyne Kizer wrote: > I have two different RH 9 systems that are having some problems with > userpasswd. After running into this problem I asked someone else who > has a freshly installed (not upgraded) RH9 system try userpasswd on his > system and he experiences ths same problem. One of my systems was > upgraded from 7.2 and one was installed from scratch. In both cases, > non-root users are prompted for their old password. When it is provided, > rather than moving to the screen that prompts the uers to enter his/her > new password, a dialog box saying "Error: Unknown error" is displayed > and the following error is inserted in /var/log/messages: > > passwd(pam_unix)[2943]: password - (old) token not obtained > > Any pointers would be appreciated. > -- > > Janyne Kizer > Systems Programmer Administrator > NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences > Extension Information Technology -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
