On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 03:53:29PM +0200, Christian Tischler wrote: " Eugene M. Minkovskii wrote: " " >On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 10:55:41PM +0200, Christian Tischler wrote: " >" Hi, " >" I am running a FreeBSD 5.1 system and some time ago it startet to " >" "forget" some user passwords. " >" As the system is now running for over 2 years I cannot imagine any " >" reason why this shound be. " >" Any ideas. " > " >root# su user " >user$ passwd " >newpasswd " >newpasswd " >user$ exit " > " > " > " >" Thanks in advance " >" " >" Christian " >" _______________________________________________ " >" freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list " >" http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions " >" To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" " > " > " > " And how do I do it from remote via ssh? "
you$ sudo su user or, if you in group wheel, perhaps possible following you$ su user if you are not sudoer and you have not other way to take a root privilegies, you can't be other user. And this is right. In other case anybody can be anybody. " thx " " Christian " " PS: that was not quite an answer to my question I think, was it? -- Sensory yours, Eugene Minkovskii Сенсорно ваш, Евгений Миньковский _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"