Patch from Philippe Troin Originally this included a bunch of changes to locking, but the more recent code pulled from Linux_pam CVS seems to fix that issue. Index: pam/modules/pam_unix/pam_unix_passwd.c =================================================================== --- pam.orig/modules/pam_unix/pam_unix_passwd.c +++ pam/modules/pam_unix/pam_unix_passwd.c @@ -708,9 +708,12 @@ "password - (old) token not obtained"); return retval; } - /* verify that this is the password for this user */ + /* verify that this is the password for this user + * if we're not using NIS */ - retval = _unix_verify_password(pamh, user, pass_old, ctrl); + if (off(UNIX_NIS, ctrl)) { + retval = _unix_verify_password(pamh, user, pass_old, ctrl); + } } else { D(("process run by root so do nothing this time around")); pass_old = NULL;