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Not sure I could explain it any simpler than the man page on my system does:

If the mode is preceded by a dash (-), this primary evaluates to true if at least all of the bits in the mode are set...

For some reason the MAIL variable seems to be wrong. Are you using "su" instead of "su -" to change from root to the user? If not I would check the various profile/rc files that set those variables...

I think it's a file descriptor/handle, not sure do...

ls -l /proc/1252/fd/3

I'm afraid that [0-9]*[0-9] will match any integer number, even longer than two digits. Try [0-9]?[0-9] instead. You may need to escape the quotation mark or use extended grep.

I think you got offered a better solution here, but in case your curiosity is still aroused, this is how grep/cut can do it:

grep's task is to select all lines where UID is below 100. I have no...

awk -F: ' $3 <= 100 {print $1, $6}' /etc/passwd

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while IFS=: read user shadow uid guid geco home sh; do...

The first question that comes to mind is "have you looked at your various system and error log files to see if there are any clues there?"

Or have you considered adding a simple logging statement...

Do you have SELinux enforcing?


getenforce


If this is set to enforcing then passwd wont work even at single user mode.


#setenforce 0
#passwd


this will turn SELinux off and...

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what is not the same as what~.


[scott@kvm ~]$ touch what what~
[scott@kvm ~]$ ls -li what*
23655 -rw-rw-r--. 1 scott scott 0 Sep 6 17:51 what
23477 -rw-rw-r--. 1...

Example...

If you edit and save "what" then the original copy of "what" will be automatically saved as "what~" which is a BACKUP of "what" before editing...

This gives you ONE chance of...