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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news.us.net!gateway.meem.com!not-for-mail From: malik@gateway.meem.com (Sohail Malik) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: BSDI 2.0 passwd Date: 7 Dec 1995 09:55:51 -0500 Organization: Meem Technologies Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4a6v9n$c0c@gateway.meem.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.240.73.154 On BSDI 2.0 the passwd command behaves differently than I'm used to on other Unix variants. $ passwd Changing local password for malik. Old password: New password: Retype new password: passwd: updating passwd database passwd: password changed elsewhere. no changes made After a 'man passwd' I see that it has been extended for Kerberos server support. Cool. But we haven't built it that way as far as I know and there seems to be a "-l" flag to only update the local passwd file. So I try it. $ passwd -l malik usage: passwd user Not what I expected. What did I miss? -Sohail