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Re: "passwd username" asks for current password of user even tho I'm root

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On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 03:17:11PM +0200, Mariusz Gronczewski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On previous releases, and on our CentOS systems I could change password of user by just sudo-ing to root and typing "passwd testuser"
> 
> In current Debian release, doing that asks me to specify that user password, which is pointless because:
> 
> * I can access /etc/shadow anyway
> * I'm changing it because user forgot it
> 
> Is there any way to set passwd (or PAM) to not ask root for current password on passwd-ing non-root accounts ?
> 
Is your system configured to authenticate against LDAP, Kerberos, NIS,
or Active Directory.  Those are all instances where "root is not really
root."

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sánchez

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"passwd username" asks for current password of user even tho I'm  root Mariusz Gronczewski <mgronczewski@efigence.com> - 2018-10-10 16:50 +0200
  Re: "passwd username" asks for current password of user even tho I'm  root Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-10-10 16:50 +0200
  Re: "passwd username" asks for current password of user even tho I'm root Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2018-10-10 17:00 +0200
  Re: "passwd username" asks for current password of user even tho I'm  root Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2018-10-10 17:50 +0200
  Re: "passwd username" asks for current password of user even tho I'm  root Dennis Wicks <wix@mgssub.com> - 2018-10-11 00:20 +0200

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