How to validate password of local users with unix_chkpwd
Issue
- My password is correct, yet I got
unix_chkpwd[1234]: password check failed for user (USERNAME)
Environment
- Releases
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Local users, whose password stored in /etc/shadow
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