On Saturday 19 March 2005 9:31 am, Chaitanya Krishna A wrote:
$passwd prompt for new passwd : <new passwd> prompt to retype : <new passwd> then it says 'passwd changed'
but still i don't understand onething. why didn't it change the passwd from the console. i tried doing the same thing as i mentioned in the above mail on my machine which still runs on centos 3.3 from the console and had no probs disabling the passwd and again changing to a new one. if someone knows why this happens please enlighten me.
regards, chaitanya.
Just a guess but it looked to me like you were at a user login prompt: $ passwd Versus a root login prompt: # passwd So I am guessing you changed that user's passwd and not root's. Root usually has a # prompt signifying root is logged in. Just a guess. Been there, done that sort of thing myself. Stan