Password help

**laolinux** · 05-23-2005

How i can change password on linux..? i use this command passwd ....
Then it said passwd: Module is unknown...where i can fix it .....
Thankz

**budman7** · 05-23-2005

Try that command as root in a terminal

su then root password
then passwd

**laolinux** · 05-24-2005

i already try ...and it still show the error message
passwd: Module is unknown

**budman7** · 05-24-2005

That is really weird, every distro I have tried, that is how I changed or set the password.

And I have tried quite a few.
Which distro is this?

**scm** · 05-24-2005

What does running the command "which passwd" give you?

**laolinux** · 05-25-2005

when i run the command for change root,user password
# passwd
Changing password for user root.
passwd: Module is unknown

# passwd ant
Changing password for user ant.
passwd: Module is unknown

and i also tried the option
# passwd -f ant
Changing password for user ant.
passwd: Module is unknown

**budman7** · 05-25-2005

Originally Posted by scm

What does running the command "which passwd" give you?

Post the output of this please.

**laolinux** · 05-27-2005

anyone have any idea about how to repair it ..?????????????????????????

**budman7** · 05-27-2005

Originally Posted by laolinux

anyone have any idea about how to repair it ..?????????????????????????

if you could post the output of

Code:

which passwd

I am sure somebody on this forum could explain what the output means.
What distro is this?

**rong** · 05-27-2005

This is called simplex

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