Bug 73582

Summary: passwd: Only root can specify a username.
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Bob Creedon <bob_creedon>
Component: shadow-utilsAssignee: Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version: 7.0Keywords: Security
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Description Bob Creedon 2002-09-06 11:17:55 UTC 
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

Description of problem:
passwd:  Only root can specify a username.

This looks like the login program is using the wrong parameter to call
passwd.

Previously notified to Red Hat Support on Service Request 211674

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1./usr/bin/chage -m 0 -M 91 -W 7 bobcreedon
2.login
3.
	

Actual Results:  get error message as notified to Red Hat Support on Service 
Request 211674. Example of the error message was submitted on Service Request 
211674 as an attachment.

Expected Results:  user should be allowed to choose a new password.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Bob Creedon 2002-09-06 11:28:01 UTC 
Created attachment 75207 [details]
screen shot of the error message
Comment 2 Mark J. Cox 2003-04-23 12:12:29 UTC 
I can't reproduce this error on 7.1, 7.2, or 9.  Are you still having this
problem on a more recent distribution?
Comment 3 Mark J. Cox 2003-12-12 09:00:37 UTC 
No response, closing.  Please reopen if this still occurs.