I have found this problem as demonstrated below, it seems very strange and none of the usual fixes suggested on Google have worked so far. I am unable to change the password on this one account (liam). Root can not change it either , although it can change it's own password it cannot change the user password :-S nor can the actual user himself
If it helps I'm running CentOS Linux release 7.5.1804
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[root@bangna ]# passwd
Changing password for user root.
New password:
Retype new password:
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
[root@bangna ]# passwd
[root@bangna ]# passwd liam
Changing password for user liam.
passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
[root@bangna ]#
-sh-4.2$ whoami
liam
-sh-4.2$ passwd
Changing password for user liam.
passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
-sh-4.2$