Hello All,
I am working on Sco unix version 5.0.5.
The passwd command has somehow got corrupted and is only displaying the contents of the /etc/passwd file instead of changing the password.
I wanted to know if there is any other command through which you can change the password of a user from the command line.

What is the output of the following command?

type passwd

I'd say either you are executing a different (perhaps bogus/malicious) passwd command (somewhere else in your PATH), or you've set an alias up of some kind.

Cheers
ZB

I tried checking it.
There is no alias set and also type passwd gives the correct path
/bin/passwd.

Is there any other utility to change the password of a user.

What does the command "ls -l /bin/passwd /bin/ls" show? I seem to remember that sco had just a bunch of symlinks in /bin. If that's right, someone may have simply replaced the passwd symlink.

Ya u were right.

It gives the output -->

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Oct 18 19:01 /bin/ls -> /opt/K/SCO/Unix
/5.0.5Eb/bin/ls
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Oct 18 19:01 /bin/passwd -> /opt/K/SCO/
Unix/5.0.5Eb/bin/passwd

Now how do i those restore those symlinks???
Or is there any other way out??

It looks like those symlinks are right. Does the command "/bin/passwd" work? If not I would cd to
/opt/K/SCO/Unix/5.0.5Eb/bin/ and look around. Like what does "ls -l *passwd*" report? If your passwd command has been corrupted, I would guess that you've been hacked. You might need to re-install the os to be sure you're ok. But if you have a second sco box, maybe you could try copying the executable.