On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, J. Douglas Alden Jr. wrote:
> Autopasswd does not seem to successfully change passwords on my system,
> either. Same symptoms as I described below. Thanks for the idea, though.
Doug,
I saw this same thing on a client's box recently. I heard about it well
after it broke so the cause is hard to pinpoint, but I believe the problem
came up when we converted the box to use shadow passwords.
When I run the expect script they had been using, the process now hangs
after it enters the first password. When I tried autopasswd it slowed
down after entering the password the second time, but did seem to
complete. When I look in the shdow file I just see an asetrisk in the
password field.
Are you using shadow? Maybe we're seeing the same thing. I'm assuming
that my problem is tied to pam/pwdb stuff, but I'm not sure what it is.
I'm running the script as root, and when I do a passwd at the command line
it works fine...
Rich
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