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Bug 172359

Summary:	rhel-sbs guide says the passwd comand allows you to change your password withouth entering the current password.
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Fernando Ipar <fipar>
Component:	doc-Deployment_Guide	Assignee:	Douglas Silas <dhensley>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	ecs-bugs
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	5.0	CC:	ddomingo, mhideo
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Fernando Ipar 2005-11-03 11:33:49 UTC

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Description of problem:
The text can be found on Chapter 14, page 126 (page 140 in the PDF). 

The paragraph says: 

"If you realize that you have forgotten your password while logged in, you can create a new one
for yourself. Open a shell prompt and enter the command passwd. The passwd
commands asks for the new password, which you will have to enter twice. The next time
you log in, use the new password. "

The passwd command regular behaviour is to ask for the current password first, if the UID is not 0.
I don't have access to a rhel4 machine, but i've verified that this is the same behaviour with whitebox
enterprise linux 4.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rhel-sbs-EN-4-Print-RHI (2005-02-16T01:05)

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Read the specified manual page
  

Additional info:

Comment 1 Melissa Goldin 2006-05-04 13:08:34 UTC

Mass adding keyword 'Documentation' to all bugs

Comment 4 Don Domingo 2007-03-20 23:41:04 UTC

assigning this bug to jha for processing

Comment 5 Michael Hideo 2007-06-06 04:42:23 UTC

Adding 'cc ecs-dev-list for tracking

Comment 6 Michael Hideo 2007-10-23 02:43:48 UTC

Removing automation notification

Comment 7 Douglas Silas 2010-09-01 20:42:12 UTC

Inapplicable to the Deployment Guide (incorrect sentence not present); closing.