Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 15:56:39 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Juan Bernhard <juan@inti.gob.ar> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't change user password Message-ID: <20140407155639.f77d925e.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <5342A529.60600@inti.gob.ar> References: <5342A529.60600@inti.gob.ar>
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On Mon, 07 Apr 2014 10:16:25 -0300, Juan Bernhard wrote: > 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. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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