Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 00:17:11 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: robertf@kormilda.nt.edu.au, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SU access & password changes Message-ID: <199902110517.AAA18036@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <19990211131309.X71962@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Feb 11, 99 01:13:09 pm"
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Greg Lehey wrote,
> On Thursday, 11 February 1999 at 11:59:46 +1000, Robert Flux wrote:
> > I have looked at the "man passwd" and I cannot find (understand) any
> > reference that will allow me to change the users password without knowing
> > the original password.
>
> Interesting. There isn't one. But when you're root, passwd doesn't
> prompt for the old password. I suppose I should fix that...
% man passwd
[snip]
.
.
.
followed by passwd(1). The super-user is not required to provide a us-
er's current password if only the local password is modified.
NIS INTERACTION
[snip]
.
.
.
Kind of hidden in there among all of the Kerbeos stuff. That page
should probably be rewritten though.
--
Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com
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