[837] in RedHat Linux List
that dang password stuff
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tom mills)
Fri Oct 25 01:29:42 1996
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 23:27:44 -0600
From: tom mills <tmills@dimensional.com>
Reply-To: tmills@dimensional.com
To: red hat mailing list <redhat-list@redhat.com>
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I've seen a few messages on the list regarding users not being able to
change their passwords...
My only problem with this involves users with usernames I created with
more than 8 characters, this seems to work fine from the user/group
manager in X but when passwd is invoked by the user from a terminal
prompt:
so143-s4:~$ passwd
passwd: User not known to the underlying authentication module
is what they get. To usernames of less than 8 characters, passwd works
fine.
I also have to make mention of one thing here... Redhat has done an
excellent job here in 4.0. There are many newbies to Linux ( a
traditionally hackish system, that is growing in leaps and bounds thanx
to people like those of the redhat staff ) who I am continually seeing
talking like what we have here is a peice of crap that has been shoved
on an unsuspecting audience.... If you want point and click everything,
learn to program or go back to microslopped.
Sorry! I just had to get that off my chest.
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Tom Mills
tmills@dimensional.com
http://ccd.cccoes.edu/~tmills/biggpa.html
"what in the heck did win95 do with my old sigfile anyway?"
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