Date: 2 Jun 1995 19:24:09 +0200 From: knarf@nasim.cube.net (Frank Bartels) To: freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Changed information for PR bin/468 Message-ID: <3qnhfp$ngv@nasim.nasim.cube.net> References: <199506012151.OAA04929@freefall.cdrom.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@freefall.cdrom.com) wrote:
> Synopsis: passwd changes wrong password
> 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.
Anyway, I'm not the only one who noticed this annoying behaviour. I
changed root's password this way and tried it out doing another su (to
root) and as you might guess, it did not work. I changed the password
back to the old password and it worked again. I tried this several
times until I saw I was changing the wrong password all the time.
Perhaps passwd should warn you, if you run passwd without arguments. A
much better and easy to implement solution would be:
% su
[...]
# passwd
Changing local password for knarf.
knarf's new password:
[...]
What do you think about this? I think I've seen something similar
on AIX, if you rlogin there and get asked for a password it asks for
"<user>'s password" instead of just "password:". Nice feature.
> Do a `passwd root' or login to root properly.
Log in as root? Hmm, `last' says I did not do this this year ;)
Bye,
Knarf
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