On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 12:16:47PM -0500, Timothy Lillicrap wrote:
> 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.
did you issue 'passwd root' ? After su'ing to root, if you issue
'passwd' (with no arguments), it changes the original non-root user
password!
I dont know if this is generic, or depending on the parameters of su
('su -', or 'su').
On the other hand, could it be that someone is restoring that password
?
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