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Monday, August 8, 2016

Unexpected Failure while changing password for a Non-root user on Solaris


$ passwd hafjk
Enter existing login password:
Unexpected failure. Password file/table unchanged

After changing the permissions for passwd file, issue got fixed

# chmod 6555 /bin/passwd
Posted by Dhana at 6:24 AM
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