Re: passwd: Permission denied ?

[Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il>]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 09:34:12AM +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'm trying to change a local user passwd as root and I get this error  
> message ... which seems a bit unreal to me ...
>
>
> passwd: Permission denied
> passwd: password unchanged
>
>
> The machine is running Lenny 64 bits

Two places to look into:

1. /var/log/auth.log
2. /etc/pam.d/passwd 

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