From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 23 13:11:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA11231 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 23 Mar 1996 13:11:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from zed.ludd.luth.se (root@zed.ludd.luth.se [130.240.16.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA11226 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 1996 13:11:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from adolf.ludd.luth.se (adolf.ludd.luth.se [130.240.16.9]) by zed.ludd.luth.se (8.7.2/8.7.2) with ESMTP id WAA27840; Sat, 23 Mar 1996 22:11:16 +0100 Received: (pantzer@localhost) by adolf.ludd.luth.se (8.6.11/8.6.11) id WAA04276; Sat, 23 Mar 1996 22:16:46 +0100 Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 22:16:45 +0100 (MET) From: Mattias Pantzare To: Chad Shackley cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Passwords In-Reply-To: <199603231955.LAA12200@mercury.gaianet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 23 Mar 1996, Chad Shackley wrote: > Well, I guess I needed to explain it a little more, but the question *WAS* > very simple, how I find out what a user's password is. You don't. > they forgot it, I email them with that it is; rather than them telling me > they forgot it, me asking them what they want me to change it to, them > telling me, me changing it, emailing them the new one, and then they finally > can get into their accounts. Set a new password for them, and tell them about it (you can't email it, they don't have the password, so they can't read the mail.).