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From: jmurray@vt.edu (John Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problem with CHPASS?
Date: 23 May 1996 17:05:23 GMT
Organization: ACM Student Machine
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In article <31A12443.4A86@tassie.net.au>,
Brook Schofield <Brook@tassie.net.au> wrote:
>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.
>
>chpass -p $1$thotuh$htnhut brook
>
>but the password isn't being changed!!!
What I think is happening is that the shell is interpreting the $ chars
and messing up the encrypted password entry see example below (echo used
to see the command line parsing). You need to surround the password
entry in single qoutes.
Script started on Thu May 23 13:00:21 1996
cray-ymp$ echo $1$thotuh$htnhut
cray-ymp$ echo '$1$thotuh$htnhut'
$1$thotuh$htnhut
cray-ymp$ exit
Script done on Thu May 23 13:00:41 1996
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