Re: password reset

2017-09-08 Thread @lbutlr
On Sep 8, 2017, at 3:20 AM, Steffen Kaiser wrote: > >> sudo passed > > After you did so, where does the passwort *not* work? In Dovecot? I never got as far as checking in dovecot. It did not work from the command line. >> if I try to change the password in

Re: password reset

2017-09-08 Thread Olaf Hopp
On 09/08/2017 11:20 AM, Steffen Kaiser wrote: When I try to change the password with sudo, the timestamp on /etc/passwd gets updated but there is nothing logged to anything in /var/log/ /etc/shadow should get updated but not /etc/passwd ! make a copy of /etc/passwd before the change and

Re: password reset

2017-09-08 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 7 Sep 2017, @lbutlr wrote: I have a local user who cannot login because of a forgotten password, so I went to reset her password with sudo passed After you did so, where does the passwort *not* work? In Dovecot? doveadm auth cache

Re: password reset

2017-09-07 Thread Ruben Safir
On 09/07/2017 05:52 PM, @lbutlr wrote: > On Sep 7, 2017, at 2:33 PM, Ruben Safir wrote: >> On 09/07/2017 02:24 PM, @lbutlr wrote: >>> sudo passed >> >> su - >> password username > > No difference. > > No difference when logging in to the console as root. > > not

Re: password reset

2017-09-07 Thread @lbutlr
On Sep 7, 2017, at 2:33 PM, Ruben Safir wrote: > On 09/07/2017 02:24 PM, @lbutlr wrote: >> sudo passed > > su - > password username No difference. No difference when logging in to the console as root. -- Apple broke AppleScripting signatures in Mail.app, so no random

Re: password reset

2017-09-07 Thread Ruben Safir
On 09/07/2017 02:24 PM, @lbutlr wrote: > sudo passed su - password username -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are the

password reset

2017-09-07 Thread @lbutlr
This is off topic, but I am not sure where to go. I have a local user who cannot login because of a forgotten password, so I went to reset her password with sudo passed Which appears to work, asking for a new password and a confirmation. No error occurs (unless I give it unmatched