Hi I have two RH6.0 servers which I administer remotely from home. They are in
a different city which is a 3.5-4 hour drive away. I would like to be able to
remotely change the root password on these boxes, but I have run into a
problem...
I have to telnet to the boxes with a regular users acount and then su to get
root access (I think this is normal). Anyway, when I have sued to root and
give passwd root, everything appears to work properly. It asks me for the new
password, and then asks me to reenter etc. Everything seems good.
However, when I log off and then log back in as a regular user, and then try to
su to root using my new password, it doesn't work (the first time I did this is
scared the **it out of me as I thought I'd locked myself out of the system).
All that had happened though is that the old password was still in place and I
could get root just fine with that.
So my question is, what do I need to do change the password remotely????
Thanks
Timothy Lillicrap
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