Unable to change password

[yethie]

Hello,
I have a very strange problem. I'm unable to change my password. I tried with passwd and I noticed that the master.password file was modified, but the password needed to log in with ssh is unchanged. I read that this can happen if PAM is using an auth system other than unix, like ldap. What can I do to understand what's happening?

The content of /etc/pam.d/sshd is the following:

#
# $FreeBSD: release/8.4.0/etc/pam.d/sshd 170510 2007-06-10 18:57:20Z yar $
#
# PAM configuration for the "sshd" service
#

# auth
auth            sufficient      pam_opie.so             no_warn no_fake_prompts
auth            requisite       pam_opieaccess.so       no_warn allow_local
#auth           sufficient      pam_krb5.so             no_warn try_first_pass
#auth           sufficient      pam_ssh.so              no_warn try_first_pass
auth            required        pam_unix.so             no_warn try_first_pass

# account
account         required        pam_nologin.so
#account        required        pam_krb5.so
account         required        pam_login_access.so
account         required        pam_unix.so

# session
#session        optional        pam_ssh.so
session         required        pam_permit.so

# password
#password       sufficient      pam_krb5.so             no_warn try_first_pass
password        required        pam_unix.so             no_warn try_first_pass

Thanks!
Francesco

 

[junovitch@]

Your /etc/pam.d/sshd looks like the default (compared to looking at my 10.1). It sounds like the password database didn't get updated.

Does ls -al /etc/*.db /etc/*passwd* show the database files as being older than the plain text versions? If so, run pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd and pwd_mkdb /etc/passwd.

passwd(5)

FILES
/etc/passwd ASCII password file, with passwords removed
/etc/pwd.db db(3)-format password database, with passwords removed
/etc/master.passwd ASCII password file, with passwords intact
/etc/spwd.db db(3)-format password database, with passwords intact

 

[yethie]

Hi junovitch,
Thanks for your answer! All the files had the same modify date, which is when I issued the passwd command, however running the pwd_mkdb command was successful and after that I managed to login with the new password. Now the passwd command works fine event without the pwd_mkdb.
Thanks a lot!
Francesco