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Re: Changing root password using passwd in 8.2.7
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Jul 14 16:25:26 1998
To: "Naomi B. Schmidt" <nschmidt@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Jul 1998 16:23:36 EDT."
<199807142023.QAA01668@MOZART.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 16:25:17 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@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?
It's potentially a bug. How did you become root?
