bin/53721: yppasswd as root asks for old password

Mark Hannon markhannon at optusnet.com.au
Wed Jun 25 05:40:16 PDT 2003


>Number:         53721
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       yppasswd as root asks for old password
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jun 25 05:40:13 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Mark Hannon
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD doorway.home.lan 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun 19 22:54:02 EST 2003 root at doorway.home.lan:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/DOORWAY i386


	
>Description:
	

Attempts to change NIS passwd as root prompt for old password.  This 
is a problem for smbpasswd chat scripts.

doorway:~# passwd mark
Changing NIS password for mark
Old Password:
passwd: sorry

>How-To-Repeat:
	
>Fix:

	


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