{"id":720,"date":"2012-09-14T19:34:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T19:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/?p=720"},"modified":"2012-09-14T19:35:13","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T19:35:13","slug":"solved-passwd-authentication-token-manipulation-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/?p=720","title":{"rendered":"SOLVED: passwd: Authentication token manipulation error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was migrating a server and rather than add all the users one by one, just copied over \/etc\/passwd and \/etc\/group.  I totally forgot to get \/etc\/shadow and when I tried to change a user&#8217;s password, I got the error:<br \/>\npasswd: Authentication token manipulation error <\/p>\n<p>To quickly correct this, I was able to run:<br \/>\n \/usr\/sbin\/pwconv<br \/>\nand the \/etc\/shadow file was created correctly, now I can change user passwords as usual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was migrating a server and rather than add all the users one by one, just copied over \/etc\/passwd and \/etc\/group. I totally forgot to get \/etc\/shadow and when I tried to change a user&#8217;s password, I got the error: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/?p=720\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniweb.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}