Bug 11031 - passwd fails on "*"
Summary: passwd fails on "*"
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: passwd
Version: 6.2
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jindrich Novy
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Reported: 2000-04-25 13:41 UTC by gerald
Modified: 2013-07-02 22:54 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-09-06 13:20:40 UTC
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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
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