sounds like mabye chsh doesnt have shadow passwd support? On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Bouke van der Voet wrote:

Yo folks,

The wierdest thing happend this morning when changing my shell. When using chsh it asked for my password, i typed in the right one (several times), but it kept refusing it. I telnetted to the machine with the same username and password --> no problem. Even than it didn't work.

Is this a known UDF or just a bug?

grtz Bouke

bouke@pocket:/home/bouke > chsh Password: Incorrect password for bouke. bouke@pocket:/home/bouke > chsh Password: Incorrect password for bouke. bouke@pocket:/home/bouke > telnet danger Trying 194.109.14.28... Connected to danger.xs4all.nl. Escape character is '^]'. Welcome to S.u.S.E. Linux 5.3 (i386) - Kernel 2.0.35 (ttyp3).

pocket login: bouke Password: Have a lot of fun... Last login: Fri Sep 4 09:04:35 on ttyp4 from danger.xs4all.nl. No mail. Directory: /home/bouke Fri Sep 4 09:18:03 CEST 1998 /home/bouke> chsh Password: Incorrect password for bouke. /home/bouke>

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Hi, On Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 10:39 +0200, Bouke van der Voet wrote:

The wierdest thing happend this morning when changing my shell. When using chsh it asked for my password, i typed in the right one (several times), but it kept refusing it. I telnetted to the machine with the same username and password --> no problem. Even than it didn't work.

Check if the suid bit is set on chsh otherwise it can't read /etc/shadow. Ciao, Stefan - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e