I think this was mentioned earlier but could the different results be
the difference between
su
and
su -
I know su alone does not set the environment to the su'ed user but I
don't know about the user id associated with various programs
Perhaps a test:
su to root
then start the passwd command
in another session do
ps -aux |grep passwd
look to see who is running passwd.
try it also with su -
Just a thought. I may try it later .
Bret
Ward William E PHDN wrote:
>
> If you aren't afraid to play with the system, here's something you can
> do.
>
> Create a dummy account. Assign the dummy account the password that you
> want to change root to.
>
> open /etc/passwd and lookup the dummy account. Between the first and second
> colon (:) is the encrypted new password. Copy that string verbatim into the
> root
> account. Save your work.
>
> Delete the dummy account.
>
> Try doing an su again, and you should find the password has changed. I'd
> experiment once to be sure you did it right while you are actually at the
> box, or if you have done a shadow password file.
>
> Bill Ward
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Timothy Lillicrap [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 12:17 PM
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> Subject: Changing root password remotely.
>
> 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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