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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!lobster.sid.mcet.edu!johnj From: johnj@mcet.edu (John Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Problem w/passwd for user w/o a password w/patch Date: 14 Jul 1993 05:15:57 GMT Organization: MCET - Massachusetts Corporation for Educational Telecommunications Lines: 13 Message-ID: <2204qd$98m@lobster.sid.mcet.edu> References: <CA18x3.AB0@obiwan.uucp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lobster.sid.mcet.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7] Bob Willcox (bob@obiwan.uucp) wrote: : 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 : I never knew if this was a bug or a feature designed to discourage the use of null passwords in the first place? -John