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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!merlin.tassie.net.au!news From: Brook Schofield <Brook@tassie.net.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Problem with CHPASS? Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 13:02:43 +1100 Organization: Tasmania's Access Server Lines: 20 Message-ID: <31A12443.4A86@tassie.net.au> References: <dhawkDr57Ko.LJ5@netcom.com> <319b67b4.5860692@news.aei.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: barney.tassie.net.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01KIT (Win95; I) I am running a FreeBSD 2.1 system and have been having problem with using "chpass" with the "-p" option to change a users password. for example: chpass -p $1$thotuh$htnhut brook so that it would change my password to what-ever! The output from the command is: chpass: rebuilding the database... chpass: done but the password isn't being changed!!! If there is anyone that knows why this is happening... or an easy way to update the master.password file easily... or especially in Perl. Many Thanks, Brook