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Changing root password using passwd in 8.2.7

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Naomi B. Schmidt)
Tue Jul 14 16:23:47 1998

To: testers@MIT.EDU
Cc: nschmidt@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 16:23:36 EDT
From: "Naomi B. Schmidt" <nschmidt@MIT.EDU>


When I'm root and type the passwd command to change the root
password on my private workstation, I get the following:

MOZART.mit.edu# passwd
Running local password-changing program.
passwd:  Changing password for nschmidt
passwd(SYSTEM): nschmidt does not exist
Permission denied

Am I reading the system release notes incorrectly, or is this a
bug?

		Naomi

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