Fwd: passwd bug?

Crist J. Clark crist.clark at attbi.com
Tue Apr 15 14:20:43 PDT 2003


On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 06:33:45PM +0200, Dusan Kozic wrote:
> OK, finnaly I know where the problem is.:)
> 
> This is one FreeBSD 5 machine and I have shell access to it.
> I can change my password to empty, but then if I want to change this empty 
> password, program passwd asks me for an Old password. And if I press only on 
> Enter button, program passwd writes on the screen sorry. But all services 
> such as ssh, telnet and ftp works fine with empty password, so mine password 
> is really empty.
> 
> Thanks and please fix this!!!

Can't reproduce. Can you show us the /etc/password and
/etc/master.passwd entries for the affected user? What's the date on
the sources this system was built from?
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