Unable to change password

[Andrew Hill]

On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 09:40 +1030, Thomas Sprinkmeier wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 12:15 +0000, Andrew Hill wrote:
> > Well, I'm stumped. I've got a machine that I can't seem to change the
> > root password on:
> > 
> > [root at staff ~]# passwd
> > Changing password for user root.
> > New UNIX password:
> > Retype new UNIX password:
> > passwd: Authentication failure
> 
> Are you using NIS/Active Directory/LDAP/whatever ?

No. It's just a stand-alone box.

Cheers,

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Andrew Hill
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