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Re: Stupid passwd tricks: passwd changes wrong user's password
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kyle Ferrio)
Fri Nov 29 11:30:19 1996
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 11:29:35 -0500 (EST)
From: Kyle Ferrio <kbf@phy.duke.edu>
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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".)
Try 'su - user' instead of 'su user' to take on the environment of
user and see if passwd picks up the intended uid. If this is the case,
then this isn't a bug per se.
Kyle Ferrio kbf@phy.duke.edu
Duke University, Dept. of Physics (919) 660-2518 office
Box 90305, Durham N.C. 27708-0305, USA (919) 660-2525 FAX
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