According to Ken Russell: While burning my CPU.
>
> linux heads--
> I am having a heck of a time trying to change the root password. I log in
> under my user name, su to root, issue 'passwd', it goes through the motions
> as if everything were hunky-dory, but when I exit root and try to get in
> again, its the old password. Is there something special about changing the
> root password?
> thax for your help!
'passwd root'
Now type the new password twice in sucsession like asked to and you get
the following return,
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully
then the passwd has been changed, if you type the proper new passwd there
should be no problem when logging in.
It works here as plain root, su root, and su - root
> -ken
>
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Regards Richard.
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