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On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 12:37, Richard P. Williamson wrote:

> The behavior I'm seeing is that the /original/ /etc/ password=20
> files and databases are updated, and not the [/mnt]/etc/ password
> files.

if you have access to mount_null then _maybe_ you can mount_null
/mnt/etc /original/etc and then try change passwd ?

Cheers,
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Nelis Lamprecht
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