On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 03:17:11PM +0200, Mariusz Gronczewski wrote: > Hi, > > On previous releases, and on our CentOS systems I could change password of > user by just sudo-ing to root and typing "passwd testuser" > > In current Debian release, doing that asks me to specify that user password, > which is pointless because: > > * I can access /etc/shadow anyway > * I'm changing it because user forgot it > > Is there any way to set passwd (or PAM) to not ask root for current password > on passwd-ing non-root accounts ? > Is your system configured to authenticate against LDAP, Kerberos, NIS, or Active Directory. Those are all instances where "root is not really root."
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez
