Bug 6599 – Changing password for user not in /etc/shadow fails

Bug 6599 - Changing password for user not in /etc/shadow fails

Summary:	Changing password for user not in /etc/shadow fails

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	passwd (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.1
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Cristian Gafton
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Reported:	1999-11-01 09:07 EST by Mads Kiilerich
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2000-02-17 16:51:19 EST
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Description Mads Kiilerich 1999-11-01 09:07:02 EST

Case:

A user is added manually to /etc/passwd
The password is set with passwd

Result: Still no entry in /etc/shadow and thus the user
cannot login.

This might be the right behaviour, but then the passwd
command shouldn't report "success".

Regards,
Mads

Comment 1 Cristian Gafton 2000-02-17 16:51:59 EST

Don't add users only in /etc/passwd. User useradd.

Comment 2 Mads Kiilerich 2000-02-19 06:16:59 EST

Agreed.

But some (slightly bogus) programs modifies /etc/passwd directly.

When passwd for such a user is set, then passwd should at least check if the
system is using shadows, and if that is the case then it should not report
success!

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