password reset

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Thu, 7 Sep 2017, @lbutlr wrote:

> I have a local user who cannot login because of a forgotten password, so I went to reset her password with

> sudo passed <user>

After you did so, where does the passwort *not* work? In Dovecot?
doveadm auth cache flush <user>

> if I try to change the password in the user's account (after su <user>) t requires the old password.
even after sudo passwd?


> When I try to change the password with sudo, the timestamp on /etc/passwd gets updated but there is nothing logged to anything in /var/log/

Hmm, does the entry in /etc/passwd change, too?

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Steffen Kaiser
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