On 2/24/20 2:40 PM, Beartooth wrote:

        Well, I tried it:

# passwd $xxxx
Changing password for user root.

Did you enter the literal "$"? That would've indicated an empty variable, so would have been the same as entering "passwd blank". Which would have indicated you wanted to change root's password.



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