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Date:      Mon, 07 Apr 2014 12:52:28 -0300
From:      Juan Bernhard <juan@inti.gob.ar>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can't change user password
Message-ID:  <5342C9BC.7020808@inti.gob.ar>
In-Reply-To: <20140407155639.f77d925e.freebsd@edvax.de>
References:  <5342A529.60600@inti.gob.ar> <20140407155639.f77d925e.freebsd@edvax.de>

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El 07/04/2014 10:56 a.m., Polytropon escribió:
>> Hello list, I have a really strange problem. I can't chage a user
>> > password, I tryed from the user itself, from root, in sigle user mode...
>> > I also try to change the hsash in /etc/master.passwd. The passwd command
>> > exit successfully, but nothing happens, the old password is not changed.
>> > The only solution I found is to delete the user and create him again...
> You should be able to force a password change with "passwd <user>"
> as root, and run "pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd" to generate the
> binary files. Those need to be "in sync" with the plaintext
> files. See "man pwd_mkdb" and "man passwd" for details.

Thanks a lot Polytropon! That worked for me... I was getting paranoid on
this thing.

Saludos, Juan.



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