[rhn-users] Strange behaviour of passwd command

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On 8/31/07, Mikko Kortelainen <mikko.kortelainen at techelp.fi> wrote:
> I'm having problems with changing users' passwords on a RHEL4 AS.
> Sometimes the passwd command locks up, takes 100% CPU and will not die,
> even with "kill -9". The parent process is init so I can't kill that
> either. The only way I have been able to kill it is reboot the machine.
>
> Any suggestions how to kill it, or about the cause of the problem?

Hi Mikko,

This doesn't sound very related to the topic of this list - Red Hat Network.
Perhaps one of the lists suggested here would be more suited to this question?

https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users

John