Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 12:34:07 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: mexas@bris.ac.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cannot change password for an ordinary user Message-ID: <20170414123407.6d57f241.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <201704132135.v3DLZgS2008709@mech-as222.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <201704132135.v3DLZgS2008709@mech-as222.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On Thu, 13 Apr 2017 22:35:42 +0100 (BST), Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On 11.0-RELEASE-p9, passwd command > seems to exit with no error for an ordinary user, > but the passwd is not updated, i.e. after passwd > has exited, this user can login only with the old > password, not the new. > > I found this thread: > https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/49802 > which suggested to use pwd_mkdb. > > I decided to check first, and got: > > # pwd_mkdb -C /etc/passwd > pwd_mkdb: corrupted entry > pwd_mkdb: at line #3 > pwd_mkdb: /etc/passwd: Inappropriate file type or format > > > Should I be worried? No, but use the correct program invocation: # pwd_mkdb -C /etc/master.passwd That is the _actual_ password file. The "pwd_mkdb" program will use it to create the appropriate db files. See "man pwd_mkdb" for details. > And how can change my ordinary user's password? Usually the "passwd" program is being used. Directly by the user: % passwd Or by root for a user: # passwd <username> Check "man 1 passwd" and "man chpass" for additional information. The use of this program will cause the databases to be updated (see above). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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