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error changing password
Name: Jim Date: May 6, 2003 at 02:33:37 Pacific OS: AIX CPU/Ram: 450
Comment:
I'm getting the following error changing my password. 3004-619 Security method "files" could not be loaded The uid home directory is mounted from another server. The password was successfully changed on the home server but the other server it is mounted on still takes the old password and cannot change it.
Summary: sudo is good at this kind of thing, but I think it only exists in BSD. This could a a good use for setuid. You could create a 'change password' script owned by an admin account, that runs with the per...
Summary: First, only someone with root permissions can change passwords (sudo maybe used to grant certain permissions to non-root users)a common method for automating the pwadmin prompts is to use expect. The...