password reset

[@lbutlr]

On Sep 8, 2017, at 3:20 AM, Steffen Kaiser <skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:
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>> sudo passed <user>
> 
> After you did so, where does the passwort *not* work? In Dovecot?

I never got as far as checking in dovecot. It did not work from the command line.

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

Right.

>> 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?

There is no obvious change in the passwd file. I haven't tried to look in spwf.db, but its time stamp also changes.

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