Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 12:32:54 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com> To: Ian Dowse <iedowse@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: neuhauser@mail.cz, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/39995: users not in @wheel cannot change their passwords Message-ID: <20020708123254.B34407@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <200206291911.g5TJBRnW061866@freefall.freebsd.org>; from iedowse@FreeBSD.ORG on Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 12:11:27PM -0700 References: <200206291911.g5TJBRnW061866@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 12:11:27PM -0700, Ian Dowse wrote:
> Synopsis: users not in @wheel cannot change their passwords
>
> State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
> State-Changed-By: iedowse
> State-Changed-When: Sat Jun 29 12:03:11 PDT 2002
> State-Changed-Why:
>
> I think the problem is not the wheel group, but that "passwd" does
> not work from an "su" session, because passwd uses the login name,
> which is not changed by su. It should work fine to run "passwd
> prema" as root, or to log into the user account directly (without
> su) and run passwd there.
passwd(1) runs fine. An even easier way to deal with this is just to
supply it with the correct username,
$ su joeuser
$ passwd joeuser
Changing local password for joeuser.
Old password:
This works. As noted, if you just type,
$ passwd
It will try to change the password of your original login and fail.
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| cjclark@jhu.edu
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