Bug 6599
Summary: | Changing password for user not in /etc/shadow fails | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Mads Kiilerich <mads> |
Component: | passwd | Assignee: | Cristian Gafton <gafton> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 6.1 | ||
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Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2000-02-17 21:51:19 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Mads Kiilerich
1999-11-01 14:07:02 UTC
Don't add users only in /etc/passwd. User useradd. Agreed. But some (slightly bogus) programs modifies /etc/passwd directly. When passwd for such a user is set, then passwd should at least check if the system is using shadows, and if that is the case then it should not report success! |