Re: passwd

2019-11-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/20/19 11:03 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: When I run nextcloud, I get: "the password you use to log in to your computer no longer matches that of your login keyring" It was not too much an issue when I was able to cancel the request, but for 2 days now, I am even not able kill the request. I h

passwd

2019-11-20 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, When I run nextcloud, I get: "the password you use to log in to your computer no longer matches that of your login keyring" It was not too much an issue when I was able to cancel the request, but for 2 days now, I am even not able kill the request. I have to kill the nextcloud application

Re: [F23] cannot unlock a user with passwd - invalid shadow.lock

2015-12-04 Thread Rick Stevens
On 12/04/2015 10:59 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2015-12-04 at 09:30 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: To make sure the lockfile gets deleted, you must create a function that deletes the lockfile, and specify that function in a trap call to trap SIGINT, SIGTERM, etc. That way it cleans up aft

Re: [F23] cannot unlock a user with passwd - invalid shadow.lock

2015-12-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2015-12-04 at 09:30 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > To make sure the lockfile gets deleted, you must create a function > that deletes the lockfile, and specify that function in a trap call > to trap SIGINT, SIGTERM, etc. That way it cleans up after itself if > you abort it. For Shell scripts

Re: [F23] cannot unlock a user with passwd - invalid shadow.lock

2015-12-04 Thread Rick Stevens
On 12/04/2015 05:29 AM, Frédéric Bron wrote: in fact, I just had to delete the .lock file. I do not understand why it was there. Many commands create a lock file so that you can't run multiple copies of the command simultaneously. If you had two users running that command, both writing to the s

Re: [F23] cannot unlock a user with passwd - invalid shadow.lock

2015-12-04 Thread Frédéric Bron
in fact, I just had to delete the .lock file. I do not understand why it was there. Thanks, Frédéric -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraprojec

Re: [F23] cannot unlock a user with passwd - invalid shadow.lock

2015-12-03 Thread Rick Stevens
On 12/03/2015 10:37 AM, Frédéric Bron wrote: On fedora 23 the following command does not work anymore: $ passwd -u username Unlocking password for user username. passwd: Libuser error at line: 171 - Invalid contents of lock `/etc/shadow.lock'. passwd: Error (password not set?) What can I

[F23] cannot unlock a user with passwd - invalid shadow.lock

2015-12-03 Thread Frédéric Bron
On fedora 23 the following command does not work anymore: $ passwd -u username Unlocking password for user username. passwd: Libuser error at line: 171 - Invalid contents of lock `/etc/shadow.lock'. passwd: Error (password not set?) What can I do to unlock this user? Frédéric -- users ma

Re: [solved] fedora20: samba4: getent passwd (and group) not work property

2014-09-29 Thread Dario Lesca
rovide more details of your setup > for help... > > The contents of /etc/nsswitch.conf /etc/samba/smb.conf > and /etc/pam.d/system-auth ought to put people on the right track. Thanks James, I have try your suggestion and now "getent passwd" (and group) work great! Many Thanks

Re: fedora20: samba4: getent passwd (and group) not work property

2014-09-29 Thread James Hogarth
On 29 Sep 2014 13:11, "Dario Lesca" wrote: > > Il giorno lun, 29/09/2014 alle 12.39 +0100, James Hogarth ha scritto: > > Enumeration is disabled by default for performance reasons. > > > > If you really want that as enumerate = true to the domain section of > > your sssd.conf > > Thanks for reply,

Re: fedora20: samba4: getent passwd (and group) not work property

2014-09-29 Thread Dario Lesca
Il giorno lun, 29/09/2014 alle 12.39 +0100, James Hogarth ha scritto: > Enumeration is disabled by default for performance reasons. > > If you really want that as enumerate = true to the domain section of > your sssd.conf Thanks for reply, James. But I known nothing about SSSD, and my sssd servi

Re: fedora20: samba4: getent passwd (and group) not work property

2014-09-29 Thread James Hogarth
ser's > domain. > > But the "getent passwd" (and also group) command non work like samba 3 > server. > > If I run "getent passwd mydomain\\ospite" the user is show: > > MYDOMAIN\ospite:*:4294967295:4294967295::/home/MYDOMAIN/ospite:/bin/false > > But

fedora20: samba4: getent passwd (and group) not work property

2014-09-29 Thread Dario Lesca
Hi, I have configure samba 4 on my Fedora 20 with "security = domain" and I have join this workstation to my linux PDC, a samba 3 domain All work fine and on fedora 20, via samba, I can autenticate the user's domain. But the "getent passwd" (and also group) command non

Re: [389-users] using passwd with 389

2014-01-21 Thread Nathan Kinder
On 01/21/2014 12:29 PM, Chaudhari, Rohit K. wrote: > Hello, > > I want to be able to use the Unix "passwd" command to reset a LDAP > user's password from the command line. However, I keep getting an > authentication token manipulation error whenever I try to r

Re: "passwd" by root for user fails with sssd,pam, ldap [SOLVED]

2013-07-23 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/23/2013 01:54 PM, Augustin Wolf wrote: I agree. The only acceptable solution would be one way hash, but this wouldn't be much help, unless OpenLdap supports it. If the system stored a one-way hash of a "password," and that hash were usable as an authentication token, then the one-way has

Re: "passwd" by root for user fails with sssd,pam, ldap [SOLVED]

2013-07-23 Thread Augustin Wolf
On 23 July 2013 16:39, Stephen Gallagher wrote: >> That means that either you need the admin's DN and plain-text >> password in a file (like the older PAM LDAP does) or you need the >> user to enter their own password (like both sssd and PAM LDAP do). So, unless using

Re: "passwd" by root for user fails with sssd,pam, ldap

2013-07-23 Thread Stephen Gallagher
ng up the bind account for SSSD itself to look up users, groups, etc. It doesn't perform ANY write operations back to LDAP at all. The only time SSSD ever modifies the LDAP server is during a password change operation, and then it's done only with the credentials of the user changing thei

Re: "passwd" by root for user fails with sssd,pam, ldap

2013-07-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
ons via LDAP server. It's used for searches, generally when your directory doesn't allow anonymous searches. It does work when I'm changing password as a user using "passwd", right? "It" consists of connecting to the LDAP server with the password given by

Re: "passwd" by root for user fails with sssd,pam, ldap

2013-07-22 Thread Augustin Wolf
far as I understand this is the user that is performing all the actions via LDAP server. It does work when I'm changing password as a user using "passwd", right? So it might as well change all users passwords. How using command "passwd" to change user password differ

Re: "passwd" by root for user fails with sssd,pam, ldap

2013-07-22 Thread Stephen Gallagher
t; to userPassword by self write by * auth it is true, but users tend > to forgot their passwords, and You don't have to give them write > permission to yserPassword attribute. Now there need to be some > other way for administrator to reset users passwords. Command > "passwd&quo

Re: "passwd" by root for user fails with sssd,pam, ldap

2013-07-20 Thread Augustin Wolf
ission to yserPassword attribute. Now there need to be some other way for administrator to reset users passwords. Command "passwd" is most common, and doesn't require admin to remember user DN. > What ldap server are you using? You may consider contacting thier mailing > lists

Re: "passwd" by root for user fails with sssd,pam, ldap

2013-07-20 Thread William Brown
On 20/07/2013, at 9:58 AM, Augustin Wolf wrote: > Hi list, > I have a user management in LDAP, as it works fine for user (can > login, do `passwd` to change his password, etc.) > But, root cannot change users password otherwise as via ldapmodify. Is > it normal behavior, or

"passwd" by root for user fails with sssd,pam, ldap

2013-07-20 Thread Augustin Wolf
Hi list, I have a user management in LDAP, as it works fine for user (can login, do `passwd` to change his password, etc.) But, root cannot change users password otherwise as via ldapmodify. Is it normal behavior, or do I have some configuration errors? For now, LDAP ACL was "turned off&quo

Re: [Evolution] Problem with evolution passwd

2013-04-19 Thread Aaron Konstam
From: Patrick O'Callaghan To: Aaron Konstam Cc: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Fri, April 19, 2013 5:08:22 PM Subject: Re: [Evolution] Problem with evolution passwd On Fri, 2013-04-19 at 13:27 -0700, Aaron Konstam

Re: [Evolution] Problem with evolution passwd

2013-04-19 Thread Aaron Konstam
From: Patrick O'Callaghan To: evolution-l...@gnome.org Sent: Fri, April 19, 2013 3:19:59 PM Subject: Re: [Evolution] Problem with evolution passwd On Fri, 2013-04-19 at 08:02 -0700, Aaron Konstam wrote: > Suddenly this morning when I open evoluti

Re: /etc/passwd- /etc/group-

2013-02-08 Thread Rejy M Cyriac
istration tools. So they are run-time created files, and are >> not owned by any rpm package, and so are not part of any update to packages. >> >> $ rpm -qf /etc/passwd- >> file /etc/passwd- is not owned by any package >> $ rpm -qf /etc/group- >> file /etc/group- is n

Re: /etc/passwd- /etc/group-

2013-02-08 Thread Reindl Harald
ned by any rpm package, and so are not part of any update to packages. > > $ rpm -qf /etc/passwd- > file /etc/passwd- is not owned by any package > $ rpm -qf /etc/group- > file /etc/group- is not owned by any package > $ rpm -qf /etc/shadow- > file /etc/shadow- is not owned by a

Re: /etc/passwd- /etc/group-

2013-02-08 Thread Rejy M Cyriac
On 02/08/2013 02:37 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > are these fails are no longer needed artefacts in F18 or > where they always only created by system-config-users > and so untouched by yum-updates? > > /etc/passwd- > /etc/group- > /etc/gshadow- > /etc/shadow- The passwd, gr

/etc/passwd- /etc/group-

2013-02-08 Thread Reindl Harald
are these fails are no longer needed artefacts in F18 or where they always only created by system-config-users and so untouched by yum-updates? /etc/passwd- /etc/group- /etc/gshadow- /etc/shadow- ___ [root@rh:/etc]$ diff passwd passwd- 67d66 < polkitd:x:110:

Re: Purpose of /etc/passwd- and /etc/shadow- ?

2012-01-12 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Joachim Backes wrote: Question: are these files only created for backup purposes, or is there another reason for this? $ man 5 shadow ... /etc/shadow- Backup file for /etc/shadow. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription option

Re: Purpose of /etc/passwd- and /etc/shadow- ?

2012-01-12 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
he was speaking about "/etc/shadow-" and NOT "/etc/shadow" and yes i am sure they are backups Whoops, right you are! - Mike -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http

Re: Purpose of /etc/passwd- and /etc/shadow- ?

2012-01-12 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 12.01.2012 12:52, schrieb Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak: > On 01/12/2012 12:05 AM, Joachim Backes wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> adding a new user with "useradd ..." will create two additional files >> never removed: >> >> /etc/passwd- and /etc/shadow-

Re: Purpose of /etc/passwd- and /etc/shadow- ?

2012-01-12 Thread Lewis Handy
> > adding a new user with "useradd ..." will create two additional files > never removed: > > /etc/passwd- and /etc/shadow- > > Question: are these files only created for backup purposes, or is there > another reason for this? > > > Looking at a sys

Re: Purpose of /etc/passwd- and /etc/shadow- ?

2012-01-12 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
On 01/12/2012 12:05 AM, Joachim Backes wrote: Hi all, adding a new user with "useradd ..." will create two additional files never removed: /etc/passwd- and /etc/shadow- Question: are these files only created for backup purposes, or is there another reason for this? /etc/passw

Purpose of /etc/passwd- and /etc/shadow- ?

2012-01-11 Thread Joachim Backes
Hi all, adding a new user with "useradd ..." will create two additional files never removed: /etc/passwd- and /etc/shadow- Question: are these files only created for backup purposes, or is there another reason for this? Kind regards -- Joachim Backes http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.

[389-users] LDAP Secondary not returning the same as primary with getent passwd

2011-09-06 Thread Dan H. Eicher
Synopsis: getent passwd {user} works on secondary and primary server, getent passwd fails (does not return all users) on secondary, works correctly on primary. getent passwd {username} - works when pointing to both primary and secondary. getent passwd | grep {username} only works if pointed

Re: /etc/passwd and shadow was blank

2011-04-07 Thread Rod James Bio
ke backups. Then, it opened /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, creating new versions but was unable to write to either file because the / partition was full. (Remember, /etc must be on the / partition because it has to be available before the other partitions are mounted because that's where fstab l

Re: /etc/passwd and shadow was blank

2011-04-07 Thread Joe Zeff
me question had gone unanswered by the community. I'm only guessing, you understand, but it's quite possible that the two problems are related. Some program tried to modify the password file (and shadow, of course) and as a first step, renamed them to make backups. Then, it opened /e

/etc/passwd and shadow was blank

2011-04-06 Thread Rod James Bio
ticed that the "/" partition was full so I cleared unwanted files and another thing is I noticed that both the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow file was blank. Good thing there was a copy on /etc called "passwd--" and "shadow--", I cp'ed those files and rebooted and

Re: [389-users] (Insufficient 'write' privileges to the 'userPassword') when executing passwd change

2011-02-18 Thread Beamon, John
, 2011 1:44 PM To: General discussion list for the 389 Directory server project. Cc: Beamon, John Subject: Re: [389-users] (Insufficient 'write' privileges to the 'userPassword') when executing passwd change On 02/18/2011 11:18 AM, Beamon, John wrote: This is a new instal

Re: [389-users] 389 Directory server + passwd problem

2011-01-04 Thread Rich Megginson
te failed: Server is unwilling to perform user is not allowed to change password passwd: Permission denied Que.2 Now how to sort out this one... ? Que.3 And one more question is, where i will find all these logs...if someone file these command at client as well as server machine(i.e. ldapsearc

Re: root passwd

2010-04-25 Thread Mikkel
On 04/25/2010 02:21 AM, Roger wrote: > I always set up /etc/sudoers to allow user many but not all root privileges > Using root is dangerous. > > su > enter root password > vim /etc/sudoers You should really use visudo to edit the file. It takes care of things like locking the file, (not really n

Re: root passwd

2010-04-25 Thread Roger
ng up using 'rescue installed system' going to shell: >> shell-4.0# >> run passwd, and change password, then reboot >> but cannot login as root have no trouble loggin as user. >> > Are you trying to login as root via the graphical login? If so, > that

Re: root passwd

2010-04-25 Thread Roger
oting up using 'rescue installed system' going to shell: >> shell-4.0# >> run passwd, and change password, then reboot >> but cannot login as root have no trouble loggin as user. >> >> auy sugestions >> Lewis Jessup (have been using linus for awhile

Re: root passwd

2010-04-24 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
ve tried booting up using 'rescue installed system' going to shell: > > shell-4.0# > > run passwd, and change password, then reboot > > but cannot login as root have no trouble loggin as user. > > > > auy sugestions > > Lewis Jessup (have been using lin

Re: root passwd

2010-04-24 Thread dhyang
在 2010-04-24六的 05:55 -0700,Lewis Jessup写道: > I just installed fedora core 12 and install excepts a password for > root but when trying to login it gives an > 'authentication failure" > > Have tried booting up using 'rescue installed system' going to shell: >

Re: root passwd

2010-04-24 Thread Todd Zullinger
Hi Lewis, Lewis Jessup wrote: > I just installed fedora core 12 and install excepts a password for > root but when trying to login it gives an 'authentication failure" > > Have tried booting up using 'rescue installed system' going to shell: > shell-4.0#  >

Re: root passwd

2010-04-24 Thread fred smith
m' going to shell: > shell-4.0#  > run passwd, and change password, then reboot > but cannot login as root have no trouble loggin as user. > > auy sugestions I'm not certain you can change it (and have it stick) using rescue mode. I'd boot up in single-user mode and change

root passwd

2010-04-24 Thread Lewis Jessup
I just installed fedora core 12 and install excepts a password for root but when trying to login it gives an 'authentication failure" Have tried booting up using 'rescue installed system' going to shell: shell-4.0#  run passwd, and change password, then reboot but cannot l

[389-users] getent passwd works, but not getent group

2010-03-25 Thread Sean Carolan
For some reason my client server is not pulling group information from the ldap server. "getent passwd" pulls over all the relevant accounts from the ldap database. "getent group", however, is missing my personal group. I don't have any entries for my user in /etc/pa