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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Unix user with root power problem in to login in putty Post 302533907 by fpmurphy on Saturday 25th of June 2011 12:05:01 PM
Old 06-25-2011
The problem is due to you assigning a uid of 0 to the user. Anybody with a uid of 0 is root. It does not matter what username you assign to the user - as far as any Unix of Linux system is concerned that user is root. Therefore naturally the system is asking for the password associated with uid 0, i.e. the root password.

Assigning a uid of 0 to another user is very very bad practice.

What exactly are you trying to achieve? Describe it to us please.
 

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ldapsetpasswd

ldapsetpasswd(1)					      General Commands Manual						  ldapsetpasswd(1)

NAME

       ldapsetpasswd - modifies a POSIX user account's password in LDAP.

SYNOPSIS

       ldapsetpasswd <username|uid> [encodedpassword]

OPTIONS

       <username | uid>
	      The name or uid of the user whose password has to be modified.

       [encoded password]
	      If  specified  this  way, the password will be copied verbatim into the LDAP directory. If not specified, you will be prompted for a
	      password that will be changed using the ldappasswd(1) command.

SEE ALSO

       ldapfinger(1), ldapid(1), ldapgid(1), ldapscripts(5).

AVAILABILITY

       The ldapscripts are provided under the GNU General Public License v2 (see COPYING for more details).  The latest version of the ldapscripts
       is available on : http://contribs.martymac.org

LIMITATIONS

       When  used  interactively, passwords generated with this command are propagated with the ldappasswd(1) command.	Thus, the resulting format
       depends on the 'password-hash' option of your server's slapd.conf(5) file.

       You can always force an encoded password (using the hash format of your choice) by specifying it on the command line.

BUGS

       No bug known.

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