Dear Michel, Great thank you, this is working now. Will this work after a reboot too? Could you now explain me what was wrong with my SELinux setup? Thank you Regards Samuel Michel van Deventer escribió: > On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 17:29 +0100, Samuel Rochas wrote: > >> Dear Michel, >> >> >>> Whatś the output of : >>> getenforce >>> >>> >> Enforcing >> >> >>> ls -Z /etc/shadow >>> >>> >> -r-------- root root system_u:object_r:shadow_t /etc/shadow >> >> After running those commands, I can run passwd without errors (passwd: >> all authentication tokens updated successfully), but the password won't >> be changed. >> >> >>> might be an SELinux issue >>> If so, you can do a "restorecon /etc/shadow" >>> >>> >> Did it, still can't update the password. >> > To completely rule out SELinux.. > Do "setenforce 0" > try to change password > Please make sure that ALL fields are accounted for in the shadow file > and there are no line breaks! > As a final solution you can try to remove the password of root > completely (in runlevel 1), reboot, login as root and change the > password again. > > Regards, > > Michel van Deventer > > >> Regards >> Samuel >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> >> BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS >> ------------------------------------------------------ >> Teach CanIt if this mail (ID 965063) is spam: >> Spam: http://neelix.grote.net/canit/b.php?c=s&i=965063&m=b276cefc88be >> Not spam: http://neelix.grote.net/canit/b.php?c=n&i=965063&m=b276cefc88be >> Forget vote: http://neelix.grote.net/canit/b.php?c=f&i=965063&m=b276cefc88be >> ------------------------------------------------------ >> END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080204/278af309/attachment-0005.html>