I logged on to a Solaris server as user oracle and was prompted to change its password. I was in a hurry so I tried to reuse the old password. This failed so I had to use a new one:
Password:
Warning: Your password has expired, please change it now.
New Password:
sshd-kbdint: Password in history list.
New Password:
Re-enter new Password:
sshd-kbdint: password successfully changed for oracle
We store our passwords in a spreadsheet which can only be accessed by certain people. A colleague had locked this and gone home so I could not update it with the new password. I tried to reinstate the old password from within the UNIX session but failed again for a different reason:
Solaris:oracle passwd
passwd: Changing password for oracle
Enter existing login password:
passwd: Sorry: less than 7 days since the last change.
Permission denied
Solaris:oracle
I logged on as root and this time I was able to reuse the old oracle user password:
Solaris:root passwd oracle
New Password:
Re-enter new Password:
passwd: password successfully changed for oracle
Solaris:root
