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Re: Stupid passwd tricks: passwd changes wrong user's password
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Anderson)
Fri Nov 29 08:46:53 1996
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 09:01:38 -0500
From: Paul Anderson <andersop@agapesystems.com>
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IO ERROR wrote:
>
> After upgrading the following RPMs as specified in errata:
> error@underground ~ $ rpm -q pam
> pam-0.50-22
> error@underground ~ $ rpm -q util-linux
> util-linux-2.5-28
> error@underground ~ $
>
> 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".)
>
> Is this working as RedHat intended, or is this a problem no one has yet
> discovered?
>
> And, there doesn't seem to be a passwd(1) man page. :)
>
> --
> Michael Hampton Crossroads Communications System Administrator
> error@error.net 318 E Burlington, Iowa City, IA 52240 (319) 354-6614
>
Even though you have su'd your uid is still the same as the user you
have su'd from. To me that is typical Unix behavior, obviously your
experience is different.
Paul Anderson
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