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Re: Stupid passwd tricks: passwd changes wrong user's password
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Zedalis)
Fri Nov 29 09:13:58 1996
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 09:17:05 -0500 (EST)
From: Stephen Zedalis <tintype@zedalis.com>
To: Paul Anderson <andersop@agapesystems.com>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <329EECC2.5881A2D8@agapesystems.com>
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On Fri, 29 Nov 1996, Paul Anderson 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".)
> > Is this working as RedHat intended, or is this a problem no one has yet
> > discovered?
This is normal for linux and is a function of passwd, not PAM.
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