On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 06:59:29AM +0200, Russell Coker wrote:
Normally to change a user's password you have to be root or to know the old
password. This prevents someone from completely taking over your account if
you leave your terminal logged in or get tricked into running a hostile
On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 04:15:15PM +1000, Brian May wrote:
(irrelevant side note: do you need to enter your old passphrase before
changing
it?)
-p Requests changing the passphrase of a private key file
instead of creating a new private key. The program will
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Brian May wrote:
(irrelevant side note: do you need to enter your old passphrase before
changing
it?)
The Passphrase actually encrypts your key, so you of course need to
supply it to change or reencrypt the key with a different passphrase.
On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 06:59:29 +0200, Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
With such a PAM module installed anyone who can write to your home directory
can change your password.
The module provides only PAM auth and session components, so they can't
literally change your password. Yes, if they
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