User Unable to Login Using Correct Password or Change User Password, Error: "passwd: Authentication token manipulation error" (Doc ID 2526118.1)

Last updated on MAY 24, 2020

Applies to:

Symptoms

A user is unable to login to a linux server using the correct password, and the login attempt fails with the following error:

localhost passwd: gkr-pam: no password set, and use_authtok was specified
localhost passwd: gkr-pam: couldn't change password for the login keyring: the passwords didn't match.
localhost passwd: gkr-pam: stopped the daemon

Try to change the password of the user "user" also fails, as follows:

[root@localhost]$ passwd user
Changing password for user user.
Changing password for user.
(current) UNIX password:
passwd: Authentication token manipulation error

Cause

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