Ubuntu
samba package

  1. Bug #546874
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 546874

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Nicolas François (nicolas-francois) wrote : Re: passwd - can't login, change password

The message "System error" is coming from PAM.

My first guess is that you have a misconfiguration on your system, but this could also be a PAM bug.

Can you check you /var/log/auth.log for messages from PAM?
Can you provide you PAM configuration?
(/etc/pam.d/passwd and the files linked from there)