I dont think passwd has any ldap capabilities, so attempting to lock an account stored in LDAP using passwd(1) wont work. I tried this here and got the same error as you. strace seems to show passwd looking in /etc/passwd for the given user. Dan On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 12:47, Mark A. Hoover wrote: > I'm hoping there's somebody out there with some LDAP experience. I've > run across something for which I haven't found an answer on Google. > > I recently tried to use the passwd lock function on an account and > received the following: > > [root@testbox root]$ passwd -l tuser > Locking password for user tuser. > passwd: Error (password not set?) > > The username exists and I can login as that user. I can also change the > user's password without any problems. > > [root@testbox root]$ passwd tuser > Changing password for user tuser. > New password: > Retype new password: > LDAP password information changed for tuser > passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully. > > > Any ideas? > > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------- > Mark Hoover > mahoover@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >
