Oops, please disregard that -p thing.
Problem solved. Despite the error message, passwd still changes the password of that user. I wonder why.
Paolo Dizon wrote:
Yes, they do. Actually, I cannot change the password of *any* non-root user. However, I can change the password for root.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] home]# passwd Changing password for user root. New password: Retype new password: passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
If I try to issue -p <password> to adduser, I cannot log in using that password.
Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote:
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 12:19:12PM +0800, Paolo Dizon wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] home]# passwd jlim
Changing password for user jlim.
New password:
BAD PASSWORD: it is based on a dictionary word
Retype new password:
Failed to find entry for user jlim.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Do both /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow have entries for this user? If one file does and the other doesn't, you'll get an error that looks like that.
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