[Watford] Books and login and stuff

[Alain Williams]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 09:35:41AM +0100, David Pead wrote:
> On 23 Aug 2009, at 00:23, Alain Williams wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 11:07:18PM +0100, David Pead wrote:
> >
> >> 'slimey' seems appropriate, but seeing as there aren't any other
> >> david's (unusually) I think 'david' will do.  07746 373 562. Thanks,
> >> Alain.
> >
> > Done.
> >
> 
> 
> Thanks Alain, though trying to change my passwd resulted in:
> 
> $ passwd
> Changing password for david
> Old password:
> Enter the new password
> Please use a combination of upper and lower case letters and numbers.
> Enter new password:
> Re-enter new password:
> passwd: Cannot change ID to root.

I noticed that /bin/tinylogin (a bulticall binary that /usr/bin/passwd slinks to)
was not setuid root. I fixed that.
When I tried it I was able to change my password - but it did not ask me for my current one ???
Curious.

Do try again.

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