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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!192.156.196.2!news.usa.net!news From: steve@smallweb.com (Steve Suhre) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: passwd problems Date: 4 Feb 1997 23:49:20 GMT Organization: Small Planet Web Design Lines: 15 Message-ID: <5d8hu0$j6v@shiva.usa.net> Reply-To: steve@nano.net NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.214.70.6 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.6+ Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5890 I'm running BSD/OS 2.0 and am having trouble with the passwd command. If you run it from your account to change your password it takes the old one, then the new one twice, then comes back with: passwd: updating passwd database passwd: password changed elsewhere. no changes made I can change the password on any account from root, but not from the account itself. Any help in ferreting out the solution will be greatly appreciated. -- Steve Suhre steve@nano.net