Bug 11031 – passwd fails on "*"

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Bug 11031 - passwd fails on "*"

Summary:	passwd fails on "*"

Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	passwd (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.2
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Jindrich Novy
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Reported:	2000-04-25 09:41 EDT by gerald
Modified:	2013-07-02 18:54 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2004-09-06 09:20:40 EDT
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Description gerald 2000-04-25 09:41:15 EDT

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 11:36:59 EDT

assigned to nalin

Comment 2 gerald 2000-05-23 03:54:59 EDT

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 09:20:40 EDT

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

Jindrich

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