From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 3 12:12:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA13282 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 12:12:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from dof-rocky.finance.state.mn.us (dof-rocky.finance.state.mn.us [156.98.96.75]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA13199 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 12:11:54 -0800 (PST) From: fifan01@dof-rocky.finance.state.mn.us Received: from DoF-PDOX-Message_Server by dof-rocky.finance.state.mn.us with WordPerfect_Office; Thu, 03 Apr 1997 14:13:40 -0600 Message-Id: X-Mailer: WordPerfect Office 4.0 Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 14:15:15 -0600 To: dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: chass -p -Reply Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk My experience (and from the FreeBSD archives it appears other people have had this problem) is that chpass -p when executed and passed correctly formatted input (cypt(3) format), nothing happens... alternatively if I execute chpass [user] and manually edit the encpass line everything works fine.... yes... DES is installed. Jeff >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > Where can I get a new version of chpass that will correctly work when > it is used with the [-p] option... > > chpass [-p] encpass Could you be more specific as to the problem you're having? It would help to know if you've installed the DES distribution. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<