Bug 11031

Summary:	passwd fails on "*"
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	gerald
Component:	passwd	Assignee:	Jindrich Novy <jnovy>
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Version:	6.2	CC:	pknirsch
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Description gerald 2000-04-25 13:41:15 UTC

passwd fails to change the password of accounts which have a single

"*" as password entry (no shadow passwords used).



It claimes that it has changed the password, but in reality it does

nothing.

Comment 1 Cristian Gafton 2000-05-22 15:36:59 UTC

assigned to nalin

Comment 2 gerald 2000-05-23 07:54:59 UTC

BTW, in addition I noticed that passwd only checks UID (and not EUID) for

permissions, so if passwd is called from a suid root script, it will fail....



Gerald

Comment 3 Jindrich Novy 2004-09-06 13:20:40 UTC

I tested it and it works for me with passwd-0.68. Closing this.

Jindrich