No real answer, just a couple of wild guesses.
1. Might you be executing the "passwd" command incorrectly? If you want to
change your own password, you normally would enter "passwd", not "passwd
tschulze". You only enter the userid when root is changing another account's
password (though doing is in other cases shouldn't hurt). Anyway, does the
command act like it works (ask for for the old password, the new password
twice, then say "password changed" or something like that)?
2. Do the SuSE and Slackware systems have a common /etc directory? Or did
you intermix their /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files in any way? I'm
wondering if one system has shadow passwords set and the other doesn't. This
might cause existing passwords to stay put but attempts to change them fail.
At 08:11 AM 3/19/00 -0500, T. Sean (Theo) Schulze wrote:
>Due to the problem I have been having with my SuSE system that I
>described in an other email, I have gone over to using my slackware
>system to do some programming assignments for school. When I log in to
>the slackware system, it does not require me to enter a password. I
>thought that maybe I had simply forgotten to set one when I first set the
>system up, so I used `passwd tschulze` to set a password. I logged out
>and then logged back in, but it still does not ask me for my password. I
>tried it as root; same thing.
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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