bin/55956: passwd chat script not backward compatible
Mark Hannon
markhannon at optusnet.com.au
Mon Aug 25 06:30:23 PDT 2003
>Number: 55956
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: passwd chat script not backward compatible
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Aug 25 06:30:19 PDT 2003
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Mark Hannon
>Release: FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD tbird.home.lan 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun 5 02:55:42 GMT 2003 root at wv1u.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>Description:
Changing password, as root, with 5.1-RELEASE has the following output:
doorway:~# passwd mark
Changing local password for mark
New Password:
Retype New Password:
Changing passwd, as root, with the passwd command from 4.8-RELEASE
gives:
doorway:~# /usr/sandbox/4.8-RELEASE/usr/bin/passwd mark
Changing local password for mark.
New password:
Retype new password:
passwd: updating the database...
passwd: done
The passwd chat syntax is relied upon by applications such as samba in
order to sync passwords.
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