RE: change of passwd thru telnet

[LENGARD Pascal OCISI <pascal.lengard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

it should work like this:
telnet to your box as the user.
run passwd and change the password

or

telnet to your box as A user,
su to root
run "passwd user" to change the password of "user"

hope this helps

pascal

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ds domal [mailto:ddomal@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, July 19, 1999 10:14 AM
> To: linuxers@xxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-india@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: change of passwd thru telnet
>
>
> Dear Friends,
>
> We have install the local mail server using Redhat 5.2, I am unable to
> change the user passwd using telnet I need help
>
> Regards,
>
> D S Domal
>
>
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