From: r.polanskis@uws.edu.au
Date: Fri Sep 26 2003 - 06:11:04 EDT
Hi,
I have big problem.
We installed 108993-25 as part of the patch cluster for Solaris 5.8
and it has broken the interface to /usr/bin/passwd.
According to the man page, passwd will not prompt for a password
when you are root or UID 0 or equivalent. it will just let you
change the passwd for any user.
After installing 108993-25 and the other patches in the cluster patch,
this is no longer the case. As root (or sudo equivalent),
/usr/bin/passwd now prompts for the user's passwd before letting
it be changed.
This has broken all our password management scripts and processes
that let passwds be changed by non-root admins on behalf of users.
I tried backing the patch out and this doesn't work.
I think this patch is truly buggered and we can't back out.
There are a lot of dependencies for this patch and I am wondering
if anyone has discovered a workaround or a fix?
I would install 108993-26 but I do not know if that's fixed it.
Do I need to lodge a bug with Sun?
Thanks....
rachel
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Rachel Polanskis Systems Admin, University of Western Sydney
V1-37, Kingswood Campus (+61 2) 47 360 291 <r.polanskis@uws.edu.au>
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security,
deserve neither liberty or security" - Benjamin Franklin, 1759
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