From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 14 00:42:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA26290 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 00:42:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (root@sasami.jurai.net [205.218.122.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA26285 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 00:42:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) id CAA00552; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 02:40:42 -0600 Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 02:40:42 -0600 (CST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" X-Sender: winter@sasami To: jinsong chen cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lost the password In-Reply-To: <199602131440.OAA10384@npc.haplink.co.cn> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, 13 Feb 1996, jinsong chen wrote: > I am the administrator of our network. Today, I want to disable a count named > 'test', then, I typed a line of command in root like this: > chpass -p abcdefg test > I can not login in 'test', but after I logout from root, I can not login in > root again also, my origin password of root is "HaPlink8a". You should boo single user, mount -a, vipw and blank the root password. You should find that the root password has somehow become "test". I too have seen this problem. I had passed it off as a fluke of the perl program we were writing to lock accounts... I'll have to see what chpass is doing before I continue to use it. Anyone else seen this? | Matthew N. Dodd | winter@jurai.net | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | | Technical Manager | mdodd@intersurf.net | http://www.intersurf.net | | InterSurf Online | "Welcome to the net Sir, would you like a handbasket?"|