passwd(1) weirdness...

[Joe Shevland]

On 8/03/2014 6:10 AM, Marko Cupać wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 16:05:09 +0000
> Matthew Seaman <matthew at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> Has anyone else seen an affect like this?
>>
>> We have a couple of machines running 9.2-RELEASE-p3 recently upgraded
>> from 9.1-RELEASE-pX via freebsd-update.
>>
>> On attempting to change a user's password via passwd(1), everything
>> apparently works fine; no sign of any errors and the password hash in
>> /etc/master.passwd is changed -- but the user cannot log in with the
>> new password *until* 'pwd_mkdb -p' is run manually.
> Now when you mention it I am starting to think I haven't actually been
> dreaming. I have seen it.

Suspicious :) Possibly the NSA dropped the ball on intercepting it and
didn't update the shadow file appropriately.