Steve Langasek wrote on 2008-03-26:
> What is the value of the password field within /etc/passwd? A value of "x"
> tells pam_unix that it should look in
> /etc/shadow; I don't think this is a regression.
In my case there indeed was an 'x'. But the user was missing in
/etc/shadow.
I guess the error reply from pam_unix is too hard to parse for mortal
humans. I myself did not understand where the problem was, when I read
the error message.
The problem in my case was that I was renaming a user manually and
forgot to change it correctly in /etc/shadow. Thus there was a user
entry in /etc/passwd but not in /etc/shadow.
I'd expect pam_unix to tell me: "There's no user $USER in /etc/shadow"
I'd say this report is rather a request for improvement of the error
reporting by pam_unix.
** Changed in: shadow (Ubuntu)
Status: Invalid => New
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passwd refuses to set password for users without entry in /etc/shadow
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203881
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