[95894] in RedHat Linux List
Re: su
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tomas Buday)
Thu Oct 22 03:33:07 1998
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 09:33:04 +0200 (CEST)
From: Tomas Buday <tomas@snt.sk>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981021170552.17400A-100000@internet.borgia.com>
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Reply-To: redhat-list@redhat.com
...what you tried to do is change nobody's password
with somebody's rights.
try "su -c "/usr/bin/passwd somebody" somebody
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Red Hat Mailing List wrote:
> I am logged in as a regular user: nobody. I want nobody to chnage the
> password for regular user: somebody. nobody has somebody's password and
> the attempt: 'su -c /usr/bin/passwd somebody' tried to change nobody's
> password, not somebody's. Does anyone know why and what I can do to fix
> it?
> Thanks!
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