From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 10 21:16:03 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA22088 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 21:16:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA22079 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 21:16:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA18036; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 00:17:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199902110517.AAA18036@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: SU access & password changes In-Reply-To: <19990211131309.X71962@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Feb 11, 99 01:13:09 pm" To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 00:17:11 -0500 (EST) Cc: robertf@kormilda.nt.edu.au, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message