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From: migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de (Michael Giegerich)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Problem changing passwords
Date: 30 Sep 1995 21:16:43 +0100
Organization: private BSD/OS site
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Message-ID: <44k8jb$opm@luva.lb.bawue.de>
References: <davidp-2909951449210001@mac219.admin.biola.edu>
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Keywords: password

>I am having some very STRANGE problems with users trying to change
>passwords.  It works fine if the SuperUser tries to change it, but the
>user can not change it on their own.  Take a look:

Did you apply the patches to BSD/OS 2.0 ? One of the very first
patches was for passwd behaviour.

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Michael Giegerich, E-Mail: migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de, Voice: +49 7144 39337