Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 16:08:50 -0500 From: Ryan Duda <spam@distance.net> To: dannyman <dannyman@dannyland.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (pw) command hanging in -C. Message-ID: <36912DE2.9EF289CC@distance.net> References: <36911151.DC9FD1DE@distance.net> <19990104143433.B16326@enteract.com>
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I am using -CURRENT, I am just stating that this command works fine in
2_2 and is not working in -CURRENT. I want to know if anyone else is
having the same problem with the pw command. I am using pw to set 1
string passwords.
-RPD
dannyman wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 02:06:57PM -0500, Ryan Duda wrote:
>
> > Is there a reason why "pw usermod username -h 0" would be hanging? This
> > seems to work fine in 2_2-STABLE.
>
> If you're running 2.2, then this question is not apropos to -current. Try
> -questions next time.
>
> How is it hanging? You do understand that it will attempt to read a string
> from stdin to set the password to, ya? If it is hanging, most likely you have
> another pwd_mkdb running around somewhere, or you are running a script with
> does not properly pass it the password.
>
> Why are you using pw to set a user password anyway? passwd does a fine job of
> it, imho. ;)
>
> -danny
>
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