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Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top Getting an “Authentication token manipulation” error when trying to change my user password up vote 52 down vote favorite 13 I am logging in to my Ubuntu Server using my username. Once I am logged in I am typing passwd command. Entering a (current) unix password passwd authentication token manipulation error new password but a second after getting following error messages: passwd: Authentication token manipulation error passwd: password unchanged What is wrong here? How can I change my password otherwise if I don't have access to that server physically, i.e. I am connecting remotely with ssh using terminal. password-recovery share|improve this question edited Dec 15 '13 at 14:22 Braiam 39.2k1693154 asked Aug 18 '11 at 13:55 Bakhtiyor 2,939154973 2 The first prompt asks for your CURRENT password. Have you done that, cause if you just typed the new one, you'll get the error message you say.. –Pavlos G. Aug 18 '11 at 14:03 1 i have the same problem, and find the answer from this link help.ubuntu.com/community/LostPassword blog.imammubin.com/reset-ubuntu-passwd/2014/07/07 try this code: mount -rw -o remount / hope this helpfull.. –Mubin Jul 7 '14 at 4:50 @Mubin: That's for an emergency recovery from single-user mode. Since this question is about a logged-in user, we can safely assume it's not a recovery scenario. –MSalters Apr 26 at 13:19 add a comment| 11 Answers 11 active oldest votes up vote 26 down vote accep
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Ask Ubuntu Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Ask Ubuntu is a question and answer site for Ubuntu users and developers. Join them; it only takes a http://askubuntu.com/questions/57620/getting-an-authentication-token-manipulation-error-when-trying-to-change-my-us minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top Authentication token manipulation error up vote 106 down vote favorite 34 I forgot my Ubuntu password so I booted into recovery and dropped into a root shell prompt and this is what http://askubuntu.com/questions/91188/authentication-token-manipulation-error happened: root@username-PC:~# passwd username Enter new UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: Authentication token manipulation error passwd: password unchanged password-recovery share|improve this question edited Dec 15 '13 at 14:21 Braiam 39.2k1693154 asked Dec 29 '11 at 5:22 era878 82921118 3 voting to re-open. See meta.askubuntu.com/questions/14668/… –Rinzwind Nov 12 '15 at 10:42 add a comment| 4 Answers 4 active oldest votes up vote 137 down vote accepted Also make sure you are mounting the file system read/write. After immediately selecting 'Drop into root shell prompt' I found the filesystem was mounted read only, which prevents resetting the password. Choosing the option to remount / as read/write and going back into the root shell prompt enabled the password change. The command to run prior to changing the password is: mount -rw -o remount / share|improve this answer edited Apr 29 '12 at 14:39 Community♦ 1 answered Jan 3 '12 at 23:29 Brandon 1,386172 Thank you, that worked. –Somebody Apr 7 '14 at 16:54 1 even after following these steps
Sign in Pricing Blog Support Search GitHub This repository Watch 7 Star 2 Fork 1 RoastBeefSandwichCo/gatewayd-installers Code Issues 5 https://github.com/RoastBeefSandwichCo/gatewayd-installers/issues/5 Pull requests 0 Projects 0 Pulse Graphs New issue Authentication token http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19302889/creating-users-and-assigning-passwords-on-linux manipulation error #5 Closed jzlcdh opened this Issue Sep 11, 2014 · 5 comments Projects None yet Labels None yet Milestone No milestone Assignees No one assigned 2 participants jzlcdh commented Sep 11, 2014 I am not a Ubuntu expert but authentication token I guess the commands to add the users should read: sudo adduser --system restful and sudo adduser --system shell_user_gatewayd (if not system user sudo command not allowed later) Also the password setting can give an error: geoff@geoff-laptop:~$ randpw(){ < /dev/urandom tr -dc _A-Z-a-z-0-9 | head -c${1:-16};echo;} geoff@geoff-laptop:~$ shell_user_gatewaydPW=randpw 20 geoff@geoff-laptop:~$ echo "shell_user_gatewayd:$shell_user_gatewaydPW" | chpasswd Changing password authentication token manipulation for shell_user_gatewayd. chpasswd: (user shell_user_gatewayd) pam_chauthtok() failed, error: Authentication token manipulation error chpasswd: (line 1, user shell_user_gatewayd) password not changed geoff@geoff-laptop:~$ echo $shell_user_gatewaydPW e3Y48Cia6esbKgfvL-Z7 geoff@geoff-laptop:~$ When I tried to use chpasswd manually it hung so my workaround was: geoff@geoff-laptop:~$ sudo passwd restful Enter new UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: password updated successfully geoff@geoff-laptop:~$ sudo passwd shell_user_gatewayd Enter new UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: password updated successfully geoff@geoff-laptop:~$ RoastBeefSandwichCo member ninobrooks commented Sep 11, 2014 Done this one a few times, too. There are a number of reasons the chpasswd command may fail, it's given me trouble a number of times. The bad news? It's probably your fault. The good news? Starting over isn't very painful as you're not very far into the script. chpasswd was easier for me to automate. If you write an alternative, I'll include it. *edit - common problems Reversing username/password combo (token manipulation error) Not enough parameters (execution halts for input) Unset variable passed to chpasswd
here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges Ask Question x Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 6.2 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Creating users and assigning passwords on linux up vote -1 down vote favorite I am creating multiple users (this case 3 users) on a linux bash script using the line sudo adduser --force-badname CPE_User"$count" and I am trying to give those users a password that I assign in the script using: echo "CPE_User"$count":1234" | chpasswd but the terminal gives me this message : Allowing use of questionable username. adduser: The user `CPE_User1' already exists. Changing password for CPE_User1. chpasswd: (user CPE_User1) pam_chauthtok() failed, error: Authentication token manipulation error chpasswd: (line 1, user CPE_User1) password not changed What is the problem? linux bash unix share|improve this question edited Oct 10 '13 at 18:20 rcs 36k10120127 asked Oct 10 '13 at 17:58 Thair Abdalla 861110 are you running this script as root? chpasswd for another user needs root privileges (so if you're calling sudo on adduser, you most likely want to call sudo on chpasswd too, or better - on the whole script). –ingenious Oct 10 '13 at 19:46 add a comment| 2 Answers 2 active oldest votes up vote 1 down vote It says it quite clearly: a user with that name already exists. Linux doesn't allow to have more than one user with the same name... share|improve this answer answered Oct 10 '13 at 18:25 ämbi 4,5691425 it says that, but there is not a user with the same name :