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From: bob@obiwan.uucp (Bob Willcox)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Problem w/passwd for user w/o a password w/patch
Message-ID: <CA18x3.AB0@obiwan.uucp>
Date: 12 Jul 93 03:41:13 GMT
Organization: Bob's Place
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I had this little problem with the passwd command when a user was
trying to add a password and they currently did not have one.
Seems that passwd does not take into account the empty old password
case. Below is a patch for the probem that works for me.
Bob
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/src/usr.bin/passwd/RCS/local_passwd.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -c -r1.1 /usr/src/usr.bin/passwd/local_passwd.c
*** /tmp/,RCSt1013337 Sun Jul 11 22:39:18 1993
--- /usr/src/usr.bin/passwd/local_passwd.c Sun Jul 11 22:30:53 1993
***************
*** 91,97 ****
(void)printf("Changing local password for %s.\n", pw->pw_name);
! if (uid && pw->pw_passwd &&
#ifdef DES
strcmp(crypt(getpass("Old password:"), pw->pw_passwd),
pw->pw_passwd)) {
--- 91,97 ----
(void)printf("Changing local password for %s.\n", pw->pw_name);
! if (uid && pw->pw_passwd && *pw->pw_passwd &&
#ifdef DES
strcmp(crypt(getpass("Old password:"), pw->pw_passwd),
pw->pw_passwd)) {
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