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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!nctuccca.edu.tw!serv.hinet.net!news.dlink.com.tw!usenet From: santa@iunix.dlink.com.tw (Santa Yeh) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: change user password Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 20:27:33 GMT Organization: D-Link Corp., HsinChu, Taiwan Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4lesq4$q6d@diig.dlink.com.tw> NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.67.6.109 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99b.112 I want to change my passowrd in BSDI. So I log in as my user name. When I executed 'passwd', I got a prompt for my old password. bsdi$passwd Changing local password for alen Old password: New password: Retype new password: passwd: updating passwd database passwd: password changed elsewhere. no changes made. But the root can use the 'passwd alen' command to change my password. Why? Do I need to change something?