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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news1.cris.com!news From: Mark Hunnibell <markh@connix.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Strange passwd problem Date: 24 Nov 1995 15:24:02 GMT Organization: Concentric Internet Services Lines: 18 Message-ID: <494o2i$72j@spectator.cris.com> References: <Pine.LNX.3.91.951123010620.23629A-100000@lot49.tristero.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: crc3-fddi.cris.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1 (Windows; U; 16bit) "John P. Nelson" <jnelson@tristero.com> wrote: >Hello, > I am running BSDI 2.0.(5 i think), and have and odd problem with users >running passwd. The user changes his password, and BSDI responds: > >passwd: updating passwd database >passwd: password changed elsewhere. no changes made [...] >Any clues? It's a bug. There is a patch available free from BSDI. The patch number is: U200-013 Mark Hunnibell markh@connix.com