Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

I created a account "padm", uid=0. I logon "padm" and type "passwd" to change password, but it change the password of "root", instead of "padm". Is any setting can solve this problem?

I don't want to use "passwd padm" command.
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Originally posted by: alethad

You created your user with the same UID as root. Hence the reason why when you changed the password for padm it changed root's password.
Go change the UID for the padm user to something other than 0.

Unless you are trying to do something else like make a second root user id.
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Originally posted by: esv

strange, I've lived with that environment for over 10yrs and never had an issue. if you are running AIX 5.3 try the chpasswd command.

best regards,
esv.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Yes. I must create a user have uid=0. I did not get this problem in solaris. I wonder AIX has limitation in this "passwd" command. or any setting I did wrong?
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hi

as far as I can remember, you have the possibility the create multiple users with the same user-id under solaris (useradd -o), but this "concept" doesn't exist under AIX; strange thing anyway that you were able to do that. whatever you want to achieve with this padm-user, you have to do it via group access privileges or you might try the new rbac features of aix 6.1.

best regards
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Originally posted by: esv

simple: manually edit /etc/passwd.

I know, it is an awful practice but works.
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