On 3/20/00 00:40, Ray Olszewski at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>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)?
>
Could be, but then this should be the case also for when I change
tschulze's password as root, entering `passwd tschulze`, which I have
also done. It doesn't seem to matter if I change my own password, or if
I su to root and do it (or log in as root and do it). passwd acts like
it is supposed to, even to the extent of not letting me change my
password to what it was already set to.
>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.
>
The SuSE and Slackware systems share a swap partition, but that is it.
And they are on the same machine, so they can not run simultaneously. I
just checked /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd on the slackware's drive, and it
seems that an encrypted password is entered in its /etc/shadow, but there
is no corresponding entry in the password space in /etc/passwd. root has
encrypted password entries in both of these files.
>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.
>
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>Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
>Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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