Bug#3244: no subject)

[Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca]

Moin

  Martin>  Subject: Changing wrong password Package: passwd Version: 1.0-4
  Martin>
  Martin> Good day folks,
  Martin>
  Martin> recently I noticed that the password program doesn t change the
  Martin> password it should.  If I su and call passwd the root password
  Martin> isn't changed, but my user password.
  Martin>
  Martin> I think (?!) this can be fixed by looking at the uid/euid when
  Martin> trying to find out for which user the program should work.
  Martin>
  Martin> Here's an excerpt:
  Martin>
  Martin> namib!joey:~> su - Password: namib!root:~# passwd Changing password
  Martin> for joey Enter new password: Re-type new password: You misspelled
  Martin> it. Password not changed.

Hast Du mal 'su' ohne '-' versucht?.

Von su(1):

       -, -l, --login
              Make  the shell a login shell.  This means the fol-
              lowing.  Unset  all  environment  variables  except
              `TERM',  `HOME',  and  `SHELL'  (which  are  set as
              described above), and `USER' and  `LOGNAME'  (which
              are  set,  even  for  the  super-user, as described
              above), and set `PATH'  to  a  compiled-in  default
              value.   Change  to USER's home directory.  Prepend
              "-" to the shell's name, to make it read its  login
              startup file(s).


Tschoe,

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