passwd(1) weirdness...

[Marko Cupać]

On Fri, 7 Mar 2014 20:10:47 +0100
Marko Cupać <marko.cupac at mimar.rs> wrote:

> 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.

I just encountered this again on 9.2-RELEASE-p6 amd64

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Marko Cupać