RE: memory violation with passwd

["Brian E.W. Wood" <beww intac com>]

On 13-May-98 Michel Beheregaray wrote:
> Hello,
>  I'm using Linux RedHat 5.0 (2.0.30) on AlphaStation 200 4/166. 
> When a user executes passwd ...
> 
> Changing password for <user>
> (current) UNIX password:   <old password is typed)
> New UNIX password: <new one>
> passwd: memory violation at pc=15555b286ac rp=15555ff2878 (bad address =
> fbad0004)
> Segmentation fault
> 
> Note : passwd run succesfully with root account.
> 
> Any idea ?

Very co-incidentally I ran into this same problem last night on the same
machine. I had set up the new user from the command line. I seemed to recall
that there was a bug which required the new user to be set up using the
graphical tool from control-panel. I set up the new uses this was with no
password, logged in as the new user and was able to set a password with
"passwd" with no problems.


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Brian E.W. Wood  beww@intac.com