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You must wait longer to change your password passwd: Authentication token manipulation error

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You must wait longer to change your password passwd: Authentication token manipulation error

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run this command: [chage -l user]

output:[
Last password change: Feb 07, 2011  
Password expires: May 08, 2011  
Password inactive: never  
Account expires: never  
Minimum number of days between password change: 7       <---
Maximum number of days between password change: 90  
Number of days of warning before password expires: 28
]

If Minimum number of days required for password change is set to 7 days 
then it will prompt an error message as You must 
wait longer to change your password while changing password using command passwd

Change the password aging information to linux defaults and try to change the password.
Changing 4th field to '0' will change Minimum number of days between password change to '0' so that user will be able to change its password without any restrictions.
Make following changes to "/etc/shadow" file as root user:

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