passwd(1) weirdness...

[Marko Cupać]

On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 16:05:09 +0000
Matthew Seaman <matthew at freebsd.org> wrote:

> 
> Has anyone else seen an affect like this?
> 
> We have a couple of machines running 9.2-RELEASE-p3 recently upgraded
> from 9.1-RELEASE-pX via freebsd-update.
> 
> On attempting to change a user's password via passwd(1), everything
> apparently works fine; no sign of any errors and the password hash in
> /etc/master.passwd is changed -- but the user cannot log in with the
> new password *until* 'pwd_mkdb -p' is run manually.

Now when you mention it I am starting to think I haven't actually been
dreaming. I have seen it.
-- 
Marko Cupać