solaris 8 passwd

Dear all,

One one of the systems running solaris 8 the oracle account has a issue when trying to set the passwd. Following is what i get when the passwd command is executed.

:/opt/oracle> passwd

Enter existing login password:

System configuration error. Please contact your administrator.

Permission denied

Passwd is file based and we are not using any another methods like nis.

if i do a:

truss passwd

it says

truss: cannot trace set-id or unreadable object file: /usr/bin/passwd

Can U folks tell me what could be going wrong.

Thanks

Message was edited by:

Earlysame

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Earlysame

[705 byte] By [Earlysamea] at [2008-3-7]