Role password permission denied

cjashu · June 22, 2012, 4:49pm

Hi Guys,
I just created a role called level1 with profiles (Printer Management,Media Backup, Media Restore) and I am trying to give the role a password but the system kept saying permission denied. Is there anything I am doing wrong? I will really appreciate your help.

# passwd level1
New Password:
Re-enter new Password:
Permission denied
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bartus11 · June 22, 2012, 5:02pm

Are you running "passwd" as root?

cjashu · June 22, 2012, 5:07pm

Yes I am running "passwd" as root

bartus11 · June 22, 2012, 5:29pm

Post output of

grep shadow /etc/nsswitch.conf

cjashu · June 22, 2012, 5:36pm

Thanks bartus11. I figured my nsswitch.conf file was nis and i do not use nis. So i change the nsswitch back to files. Got it working.
Thanks much