[3775] in testers
Re: More data on passwd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Jul 14 16:38:06 1998
To: "Naomi B. Schmidt" <nschmidt@MIT.EDU>
Cc: ghudson@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Jul 1998 16:35:34 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 16:37:56 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> I'm not sure why the /bin/passwd command didn't take effect the
> first time. This may or may not be relevant.
It's not relevant, but I can explain why: in 8.1, /bin/passwd will
change the current /etc/shadow file but will not update the
/etc/shadow.local file. So after your machine reactivates, the
changed password will be reverted. Part of the motivation behind
/usr/athena/bin/passwd is so that administrators don't have to know to
update the local shadow file.
