Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 14:00:24 +1030 From: Brian Astill <bastill@sa.apana.org.au> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: A question from a convert from Windows to FreeBSD Message-ID: <02012614002402.01182@BAPhD.gihon.org.au> In-Reply-To: <02012421455703.07381@proxy.pt.com> References: <0ffe01c1a371$661d1b20$6600640a@attbi.com> <02012512323903.01099@BAPhD.gihon.org.au> <02012421455703.07381@proxy.pt.com>
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On Friday 25 January 2002 13:15, Bill Moran wrote: > From your reaction, I'm guessing you have yet to discover the > built-in man pages I had a recent problem of somehow not being able to enter my system as user. I needed to change the me-as-user password and thought I would need to know the password FreeBSD was already holding in order to do this. I searched the man pages for passwd ypasswd etc etc, but NOWHERE could I find anything that told me how to make the change without knowing the existing password. When I asked on this list, the answer was somewhat embarrassing <blush>. However, what I am saying is that the simple sentence "passwords can be changed by root without knowledge of a users existing password" was simply not there on any man page - heaps and heaps of well-written detail I did not need, was. So just RTFM isn't any kind of solution for a newbie, who is likely to suffer information overload and STILL not find a solution to his or her problem. > Some > interesting places to start: > man man > man hier > man security > man tuning Will have a look at these. -- Regards, Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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