No, this box does not use shadow passwords, unfortunately, but this is a
production machine, and I have no other machines in which to run tests to
see what converting to shadow would break.
Doug
-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Burroughs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 8:57 PM
Subject: Re: expect / password automation
>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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