Thanks for the reply Sir...
Is there a better _real_ newbie list than this one?
Llaamaboy
Sam Currie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I can not comment about the passwords actually being reset, but RHUM and
most user admin tools will display passwords as a fixed number of
characters. This is because passwords are one way encrypted and the
program can not actually tell how many characters there is.
So they just display a fixed length password to visually represent that
there is a password on the account. Did you change the password and
then try to login with the account? Or did you just keep changing the
password over and over again? If you were doing the later, I bet it was
actually doing it's job correctly.
Cheers, Sam
On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 02:36, Bob Sox wrote:
> Loaded 8 for the first time last night and was bumping around with user
> account.
> This morning, I could not gain access with that user. Logged on as Root,
> using both Gnome and KDE and ma! nagers, the Red Hat User Manager had changed
> the password and all attempts to change it back to the wanted password (yes
> with root password) would fail. The RHUM would always reset any password to
> what looked like a five character default password.
>
> The problem was solved by using bash, deleting the "last night" account and
> adding the current account.
>
> Any ideas what happened?
>
>
> Llaamaboy
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