I'm guessing that your password hash was not added correctly or the password wasn't what you thought it was. That would prevent you from logging in as the user, or changing the password while running as the user. su <user> worked because it doesn't check the password when run as root. Setting the password as root correctly set the password for the user without prompting you for the old and unknown password.
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 04:38:01PM -0500, Ricardo Lopez wrote: > That worked, many thanks to you. If you have a spare moment, could you let > me know why that worked? And what was wrong? > > Al > > On Tue, 7 May 2002, Tom Brown wrote: > > > What happens when you try to set the password for your user as root? > > Login as root and run > > passwd <user> > > > > where <user> is your username. > > > > I would do something like this: > > > > Login: root > > Password: > > > > # passwd thecap > > Enter new UNIX password: > > Retype new UNIX password: > > passwd: password updated successfully > > # > > > > On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 11:13:40PM -0500, Ricardo Lopez wrote: > > > what do you mean? I'm not sure what your asking > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > 28 70 20 71 2C 65 29 61 9C B1 36 3D D4 69 CE 62 4A 22 8B 0E DC 3E > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://thecap.org/ > > > > -- 28 70 20 71 2C 65 29 61 9C B1 36 3D D4 69 CE 62 4A 22 8B 0E DC 3E mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://thecap.org/ _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
