From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Jun 1 14:51:28 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA04954 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 1 Jun 1995 14:51:28 -0700 Received: (from jkh@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA04929 ; Thu, 1 Jun 1995 14:51:21 -0700 Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 14:51:21 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Message-Id: <199506012151.OAA04929@freefall.cdrom.com> To: knarf@nasim.cube.net, jkh, freebsd-bugs Subject: Changed information for PR bin/468 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Synopsis: passwd changes wrong password State-Changed-From-To: open-closed State-Changed-By: jkh State-Changed-When: Thu Jun 1 14:50:17 PDT 1995 State-Changed-Why: This is not a bug. su changes only the effective uid, and if you wish to change the password for someone else then this isn't the way to do it. Do a `passwd root' or login to root properly.