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From: Brook Schofield <brook@ida.tassie.net.au>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problem with CHPASS?
Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 03:16:35 +1000
Organization: Tasmania's Access Server Pty Ltd
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> >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.
I originally tried by escaping the $ signs so that the command read:
chpass -p \$1\%thoutuh\$htnhut
but there was still no getting it to work. The password listed BTW is not
a valid password... I actually copied an encrypted password from
/etc/master.password to try and change my account to that password.
Thanks anyway John... If anyone else has an idea on how to fix this
problem please inform me! ;-)
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