]] Nicolas François > Hello, > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 02:15:28PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > > > Between 4.14.2 and 4.1.5.1, usermod changed so that you need to provide > > the uid of a non-unique user when changing the password. Previously, > > you could do: > > > > usermod -p '$hash' -o root > > > > and it would work, now you need to do -o root -u 0, which seems > > redundant. > > Why do you want to use the -o option?
Because I have multiple users with the same UID, obviously. It was previously required, I think. > Wouldn't it be sufficient to use the following? > usermod -p '$hash' root Seems like it. I'd like the UI to not change around though, since I drive this from automation scripts which then have to special-case each version. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
