On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Billy Davis wrote: > We have just done a FRESH install of RH7.3 right out of a retail box, and have >encountered two problems: > > 1. We set up several users with temporary passwords for testing. Later we logged >into the Graphical login screen as root, and selected System Settings-->User Manager. > Then we highlighted a user and selected Properties. When the User Properties window >displayed, we rekeyed the Password and Confirm Password fields and clicked on OK. >However, the passwords did NOT change. After several attempts, we finally tried the >old fashioned(?) 'usermod' approach, and it too failed. Finally, we deleted the >users and readded them with the proper passwords. What is up with this???? Are we >missing something in the procedure?
I'm assuming that you logged in as user1, and then tried to modify the password of user2. The only users that can change user2's password are root (which can change anyone's password) and user2. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
