Questions tagged [passwd]
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Fedora 32/33 - Remove password strength enforcement
Fedora 32/33 wont let me select a short password for root and user. In this case i want to allow it, but i cannot do so:
❯ sudo passwd
Changing password for user root.
New password:
BAD PASSWORD: The ...
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adduser name password set to a different user
I am root user and added a new user to the system with adduser username and set the password. I left my server for a half or or so and I come back and press the escape key "wake it up" I go ...
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order in passwd and shadow file
In order to implement some parser and eventually some tool to write to /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow on linux, I'd like to know if I can assume that the users in the files are guaranteed/or mostly in ...
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/etc/passwd.org, /etc/group.org, /etc/shadow.org files
On a Debian 10 server, which started as Debian 7 and updated whenever new version came out, I accidentally found these three files:
/etc/passwd.org, /etc/group.org, /etc/shadow.org
The backup files /...
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force specific shell environment variable on process using /etc/pam.d/ rules
I am using slim login manager, and it has its own pam rules file: /etc/pam.d/slim.
auth requisite pam_nologin.so
auth required pam_env.so readenv=1
auth required pam_env....
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force slim login manager to use /bin/sh to execute scripts, instead of user shell specified in /etc/passwd
I am using slim login manager, and openbox window manager.
I believe, the startup sequence has these steps:
1) root: /etc/init.d/slim
2) root: /usr/bin/slim
2) user: /usr/bin/slim
3) user: ...
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Why would 000 on /etc/shadow permissions lead to me not being able to use passwd?
Basically, I decided to change the password on the VM I use for work which runs CentOS 7. Entering a new password in literally every case (user runs passwd himself, user sudos passwd, sudo su and then ...
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passwd -d can't remove password of user?
I created a new user to access a network share which I want to give no password. I ran useradd share and then sudo passwd -d share. passwd tells me that the password expiry information changed. If I ...
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User with privilege to manage other users' password EXCEPT root's
I am trying to give user a privilege to change other users' passwords, BUT excluding root's password.
I have edited the /etc/sudoers file with visudo and appended the following line:
myuser ALL=/...
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Is a comment line allowed in /etc/passwd
I know, in RHEL 7.8, that you can have blank lines in /etc/passwd
But can you have comment lines, and if so what would the line start with?
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Cannot use sudo su after I changed my password
I am running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
Yesterday, I changed the password on my user account, which is an admin account. This morning, I discovered that I can no longer use sudo su to switch to root. I know ...
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Can you edit /etc/passwd on a firmware image?
I'm trying to gain root access on a cheap DVR that I bought for a CCTV system. The manufacturer has a firmware update image available for download that I was able to inspect using a tool called ...
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FreeBSD - Change user password after SSHing into a Server
I would like to change the user password after having SSHed into a server, but get the following error:
passwd
Changing local password for
passwd: pam_start(): System error
What is the ...
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How to display a system account with the highest user id
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
bin:x:1:1:bin:/bin:/sbin/nologin
daemon:x:2:2:daemon:/sbin:/sbin/nologin
adm:x:3:4:adm:/var/adm:/sbin/nologin
lp:x:4:7:lp:/var/spool/lpd:/sbin/nologin
sync:x:5:0:sync:/...
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Cannot login because corrupted /etc/passwd
I accidentally change one line of /etc/passwd to something like:
foo:x:147:158::"/home/foo/#0.0.0.0:80/www":/usr/bin/bash
^ quoted because there's colon in the ...
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How to check the password age of Users from Active Directory
I am working on Linux (RHEL and SLES) and am not a Linux administrator and don't have access to a Linux administrator.
The users are from Active Directory hence I am not able to
find/reset the ...
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SFTP server with third party user management system?
I understand how to set up SFTP servers on Linux and create users and their passwords manually.
So basically, the users get authenticated as normal Linux users get authenticated through /etc/passwd. ...
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What encryption mechanism is used to store passwords in `/etc/shadow` in a typical Unix, such as Gnu/Linux?
(From a novice's point of view)
The other day I was thinking about how a typical "passwd" command works in a LINUX OS. For example, when we type in "passwd", a prompt appears letting us type in our ...
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Printing information about a specific user from /etc/passwd
So I'm trying to list a bunch of info about users in etc/passwd. So far I managed to it so that the script writes out all users starting from uid 1000.
I need another function to write info about a ...
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changing *your* linux password via a bash script
It's easy enough to change another users password via a bash script - just do echo newpw | passwd username and bam, you're done. But what about changing your password via bash? echo newpw | passwd ...
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Linux - create user with no password (login without password prompt)
I found many articles mentioning that user has no password after using passwd -d. While on some of my systems it indeed works (I can su from unprivileged accounts to them without giving password) on ...
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Bash script to make passwordless connection
I want to make passwordless connection with help of bash scripting. The requirement is that user has to just provide password.
Point to be considered:
1) There is no generated public/private key in ...
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Why does /etc/shadow uses user name instead of uid?
/etc/shadow contains the username, but not the uid. Is there a specific reason, why a char * field was chosen over an int?
For direct username->password check this might be quicker, but for ...
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how do I changed the password policy in LibreElec
I believe LibreElec is using some form of BusyBox. I've done lots searching and been unable to find where password rules can be changed. Since my LibreElec media player is not connected to the ...
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What are the default permissions on the Debian /etc/passwd file?
What are the default permissions for /etc/passwd on Debian distributions?
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passwd command not changing the current user password
I have tried with command:
$ passwd
It is asking new password and give success message but when I try to login with new password after restart the system. It work with old password. New password not ...
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Screen Lock Checks password file but not Active Directory
We have a Linux system running Centos 7 and have an issue with the screen lock. We have a multi-user environment where each user has their own account. The authentication is using our university ...
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how to disable password complexity check for centos 8
I have freshly installed centos 8 on my PC.
I want to keep my old user password.
Centos complains, it is too short (7 chars) and is based on some dictionary word.
How can I disable this check?
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Finding the most common name in passwd file [duplicate]
I have a question on getting the most common names in the /etc/passwd file on Unix.
Is this the correct command?:
cut -d: -f5 /etc/passwd | uniq -c | sort -i | sort -n
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Automatically Run Multiple Command over SSH on multiple devices
I have 100+ devices that has same username and password and enabled SSH.
What I would like to achieve is for each device I want to run same command to change their password bulk.
What I did is to ...
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What is the practical difference between locking and deleting a user password?
The accepted answer to How do I completely remove root password suggests passwd -d root ("deleting" the password), and a comment suggests instead using passwd -l root ("locking" the password). The ...
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When did Unix stop storing passwords in clear text?
When did Unix move away from storing clear text passwords in passwd? Also, when was the shadow file introduced?
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Specify a home directory path for a user in /etc/passwd with spaces in it?
I have a path I want to use as a home directory in WSL, but it's also path that has spaces in it.
I've tried escaping the spaces with slashes, and I've tried using single and double quotes with just ...
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Ampersand in the passwd GECOS field
When expanding the /etc/passwd GECOS field to get the user's full name, should we expand only the first ampersand (& character), or all ampersands?
In a GECOS field with comma (,) delimited ...
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Beeing root but without knowing password. Replacing binaries in /bin/ to bypass restrictions
I have an active root account, but I don't know my password.
To be able to change my password or even to create another users (with the tool passwd) I need to know my password. So that creates a ...
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Get users with UID >= 1000 from /etc/passwd
I am trying to get usernames from /etc/passwd if UID equal/greater than 1000 using a for loop. The below simple bash script works but prints the username twice for some reason.
#!/bin/bash
for ...
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What does the L returned from passwd --status mean
I was checking my password status and noticed that instead of NP or P there was a L returned so i checked the man pages and found it was a locked password could someone explain what this is to me?
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How to have synchronized samba passwords with local linux accounts where linux account are the leading system/authority?
How to have synchronized samba passwords with local Linux accounts where Linux accounts are the leading system/authority?
This seems to be a surprisingly complex request/requirement. Since I already ...
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running git or ssh client in docker as user: No user exists for uid
Problem:
I'm trying to run a git clone myuser@server:repo.git from within a docker container. Inside the container (due to policy) I am the same user as on the docker host system (non-root) and have ...
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auto enter password for `passwd <new user>` from script? [duplicate]
if the script was useradd ...............<new_user>; passwd <new_user>;. is there a way to put the new password in a script? I don't need to change or add an old password for an existing ...
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Why is +::0:0::: not supposed to be found in /etc/passwd?
I was reading the BSI Security Guidelines (GERMAN), on NIS and it explicitly mentioned that one should prevent the entry +::0:0::: from occuring in the /etc/passwd file of the NIS server.
From my ...
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passwd command not working as expected
I am trying to change the password of my root and other users. When I try it using passwd it takes me to another prompt without asking the new password. As in:
[root@southapp2 ~]# passwd
[root@...
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Why would /etc/passwd be used every time someone executes `ls -l` command?
Read from APUE, just feel curious:
The password file is used every time a user logs in to a
UNIX system and every time someone executes an ls -l command.
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Is it safe to set password in /etc/passwd to * on Linux to prevent password login?
AFAIK, the second field of /etc/passwd can be
x: password is in shadow
hashed password
What if I put a string less than 8 chars in the field? I do not want anyone to use password on this account.
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ubuntu cannot boot after modifying /etc/passwd
The following are the steps I destroyed my ubuntu:
I installed Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04 in my computer;
I modified the /etc/default/grub and set GRUB_TIMEOUT = 0, then I cannot see the Grub screen;...
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Is there a way to retrieve a root mysql password (no reset)
Is there a way to get back / retrieve a mysql root password.
I mean get it back : not resetting it (I already know how to reset it and I use the reset method currently).
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Can a Solaris 11 account prefixed with # be used to login?
I have been given a list of accounts on a Solaris 11 server that contains several accounts which are prefixed with a # character: "#username". (No LDAP is being used, and all accounts are local ...
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!! versus * in /etc/passwd [duplicate]
My (admittedly dated) understanding of unix is that in /etc/passwd if the second field is 'x' then the identity can login with a passwd that matches a hash found in /etc/shadow.
However, when I list /...
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About macOS: why my user not in sudoers file but I can use sudo privileges too?
In Linux, if the user that you created want to use sudo privileges, you should add this user to /etc/sudoers(add something like jack ALL = (ALL) ALL). Well, the default mac user(the one you login to ...
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Why does the primary group of my user show up in /etc/group?
I'm following a course about Linux and it states the following: "The primary group of a user is not mentioned in the /etc/group file."
However, my primary user "timgeldof" actually does show up in ...
