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Re: Stupid passwd tricks: passwd changes wrong user's password
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Evans)
Fri Nov 29 07:32:10 1996
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 12:30:20 +0000 (GMT)
From: Chris Evans <chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>
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On Fri, 29 Nov 1996, IO ERROR wrote:
> Whenever I su to root, and execute the "passwd" command, it reports that it
> changed the password, and that all authentication tokens were updated
> successfully, but instead of changing the root passwd, it changes the passwd of
> the user I su'd from! This is definitely not the behavior I'm accustomed to.
> (The workaround for this is to type "passwd root".)
This is intentional behaviour if you are doing just "su" or "su root". You
need to use "su -" or "su - root", the - sign simulates a new login
session, setting a few environment variables that are important.
Chris.
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