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From: malik@gateway.meem.com (Sohail Malik)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: BSDI 2.0 passwd
Date: 7 Dec 1995 09:55:51 -0500
Organization: Meem Technologies
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Message-ID: <4a6v9n$c0c@gateway.meem.com>
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On BSDI 2.0 the passwd command behaves differently than I'm used
to on other Unix variants.

	$ passwd
	Changing local password for malik.
	Old password:
	New password:
	Retype new password:
	passwd: updating passwd database
	passwd: password changed elsewhere.  no changes made

After a 'man passwd' I see that it has been extended for
Kerberos server support.  Cool.  But we haven't built
it that way as far as I know and there seems to be a "-l"
flag to only update the local passwd file.  So I try it.

	$ passwd -l malik
	usage: passwd user

Not what I expected.

What did I miss?

-Sohail