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From: David <davidc@arcadia.netpoint.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Changing Passwords
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 1995 23:14:39 -0400
Organization: NetPoint Communications
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Get the patch on BSDI FTP. It is a bug on passwd file and the patch is 
there.


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| David (PeTeR-PaN)  |	davidc@arcadia.netpoint.net  |
|   URL  -  http://www.netpoint.net/~davidc	     |
|    "I am not only perfect... I am cuban also!"     |
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On Mon, 7 Aug 1995, Mike Grady wrote:

> Can somebody explain why when a user tries to change their password,
> the system reports back: password changed elsewhere, no changes made. 
> ?
> 
> 	The default user shell is bash.
> 
> 			Thanks, 	.\\ike
> 
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