From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 13 9:23:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from loki.ideaglobal.com (loki.ideaglobal.com [194.36.20.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD63337BF28 for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 09:23:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kiril@loki.ideaglobal.com) Received: (from kiril@localhost) by loki.ideaglobal.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA19083 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 13 May 2000 16:31:03 GMT (envelope-from kiril) From: Kiril Mitev Message-Id: <200005131631.QAA19083@loki.ideaglobal.com> Subject: /usr/bin/passwd hangs ... To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 16:31:03 +0000 (GMT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (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 this on a more-or-less brand new install of f-bsd 4.o release after I finished the install, i logged-on as root and created a user account after that i tried to set the account's password passwd USER that command hangs for about10-15 minutes before coming up with the next prompt.... what IS it looking for and can I disable that , please ?? PS. plz CC: me on any replies -- Kiril Mitev, IT Operations Mgr, London IDEAglobal.com Standard Corporate Disclaimer applies, see http://www.ideaglobal.com/email-disclaimer.html for details. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message