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Passwd file problem
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It sounds like either one of 2 things:
you are changing your passwd on an SP node when you should be changing it on the CWS (Control work Station)
Usually, once an hour the CSW copes password file down to the nodes, so if you changed on the node and not the CWS it would behave like you said.(you might see the same behavior on a cluster)
Or you are changing you passwd on a NIS slave when it should be done on the NIS master.
OR you have a co-worker who is changing the flag feild in /etc/security/passwd and adding ADMCHG
Oh Also you might look in roots crontabs someone could have set up a script to ftp /etc/passwd and /etc/security/passwd from 1 AIX server down to many
Hope that this helps
you are changing your passwd on an SP node when you should be changing it on the CWS (Control work Station)
Usually, once an hour the CSW copes password file down to the nodes, so if you changed on the node and not the CWS it would behave like you said.(you might see the same behavior on a cluster)
Or you are changing you passwd on a NIS slave when it should be done on the NIS master.
OR you have a co-worker who is changing the flag feild in /etc/security/passwd and adding ADMCHG
Oh Also you might look in roots crontabs someone could have set up a script to ftp /etc/passwd and /etc/security/passwd from 1 AIX server down to many
Hope that this helps
long shot but I had the same thing the other day.
A N Other had edited /etc/security/user manually and left a non numric char in a field.
histsize = x20
changed to
histsize = 20
might be worth checking.
Mike
"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."
A N Other had edited /etc/security/user manually and left a non numric char in a field.
histsize = x20
changed to
histsize = 20
might be worth checking.
Mike
"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."
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im not running on sp node its a stand alone machine
Pseries 520 4 way server
-rw-r--r-- 1 root security 3843 Feb 16 07:36 passwd
nightman:!:0:0::/home/nightman:/usr/bin/smit mksysb
don:*:291:1::/home/don:/usr/bin/ksh
back15:*:292:1::/home/back15:/usr/bin/ksh
now nightman was going to be where they can just logon and do the mksysb the problem is it keeps asking to redo the password.
Now when I made a new user here is what happen.
# mkuser nate
# passwd nate
Changing password for "nate"
nate's New password:
Enter the new password again:
3004-622 An error occurred updating the password database.
3004-709 Error changing password for "nate" : Value is invalid.
something is wrong here also when i go into smit to deleted a user it wont let me I get an error there.
Could used some help please. also if you look at my passwd file its creating the person like 4 line down and not the next line.
Pseries 520 4 way server
-rw-r--r-- 1 root security 3843 Feb 16 07:36 passwd
nightman:!:0:0::/home/nightman:/usr/bin/smit mksysb
don:*:291:1::/home/don:/usr/bin/ksh
back15:*:292:1::/home/back15:/usr/bin/ksh
now nightman was going to be where they can just logon and do the mksysb the problem is it keeps asking to redo the password.
Now when I made a new user here is what happen.
# mkuser nate
# passwd nate
Changing password for "nate"
nate's New password:
Enter the new password again:
3004-622 An error occurred updating the password database.
3004-709 Error changing password for "nate" : Value is invalid.
something is wrong here also when i go into smit to deleted a user it wont let me I get an error there.
Could used some help please. also if you look at my passwd file its creating the person like 4 line down and not the next line.
Is this really the only AIX server on your network?
You aresure you are not using NIS?
ok, sounds like you have a problem in one of the user files
make a tar back-up of /etc and drop the file someplace like /tmp
then run as root
usrck -n ALL
If this finds errors that you want to fix run
usrck -y ALL
You aresure you are not using NIS?
ok, sounds like you have a problem in one of the user files
make a tar back-up of /etc and drop the file someplace like /tmp
then run as root
usrck -n ALL
If this finds errors that you want to fix run
usrck -y ALL
I'd try giving nightman /usr/bin/ksh as shell and put the smitty mksysb in the user's .profile like so:
---begin-of-nightman's-.profile---
...
(keep whatever's in there)
(add the following 3 lines)
trap '' 2 3 15
/usr/bin/smitty mksysb
exit
----end-of-file
HTH,
p5wizard
---begin-of-nightman's-.profile---
...
(keep whatever's in there)
(add the following 3 lines)
trap '' 2 3 15
/usr/bin/smitty mksysb
exit
----end-of-file
HTH,
p5wizard
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