1) consider installing ssh so your password doesn't go cleartext over the network :-)
2) I noticed that on some systems after an "su" if you use "passwd" you're actualy
changing the password of the user you were *before* the su. Are you by any chance
changing the root password to that of the user?
Another option: change the password on your local machine and then copy the encrypted
version from your /etc/passwd file (or /etc/shadow if you use shadow passwords) to the
/etc/passwd or /etc/shadow on the remote system. That way the new password doesn't go
over the net (ofcourse it doesn't matter if the next thing you do is a telnet to the
remote machine to test the new password :-)
Nico
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Timothy Lillicrap wrote:
> 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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