Bug 73582 - passwd: Only root can specify a username.
Summary: passwd: Only root can specify a username.
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: shadow-utils
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nalin Dahyabhai
QA Contact: David Lawrence
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-09-06 11:17 UTC by Bob Creedon
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:46 UTC (History)
0 users

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2003-12-12 09:00:37 UTC
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screen shot of the error message (1.15 MB, text/plain)
2002-09-06 11:28 UTC, Bob Creedon 		no flags Details
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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

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


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.
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