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Re: Can not change passwd?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (honglu@rt66.com)
Thu Oct 24 13:37:28 1996
From: honglu@rt66.com
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 11:40:42 -0600 (MDT)
Reply-To: honglu@rt66.com
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In-Reply-To: <m3k9sgxt3t.fsf@bagend.stud>
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Hi:
I installed 4.0 brand new. But also, I copied some /etc/ files ( not
passwd file). It is not working. I changed /usr/bin/passwd from
-rwsr-x-x-r root.bin to root.root , and "pwconv5" back and forth several
times. Still user will get segmentation, and root is OK to change. Very
strange.
Henry H Lu
http://www.tc.umn.edu/nlhome/m508/luxxx012/
On 24 Oct 1996, Trond Eivind Glomsr=F8d wrote:
> honglu@rt66.com writes:
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> > I have upgraded all errota, including new pam package. Still, user acco=
unt=20
> > will get segmentation error. The only way now to change user passwd is=
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> > root account by "passwd user". Very impractical this way.
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> bagend:~% passwd
> Password:=20
> New password:=20
> New password (again):=20
> Password changed
> passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully
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> Works fine here. Do you run shadow (I do) or normal passwds? (just run
> "pwconv5" to switch). Do you have a brand new 4.0, or a upgraded 3.0.3?
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> Trond Eivind Glomsr=F8d=20
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