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kermitjunior
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 04, 2002 1:46 pm    Post subject: New password - UNIX? er Reply with quote

Hello... kinda newbie here.

I went to set the password for my new (Yipee!!!!!!) gentoo linux system.

It asks for

New UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:

I know we're compiling from source... but shouldn't the source at least be updated to say new LINUX password? Or is this some nastalgic UNIX predecessor link I don't know about?
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 04, 2002 2:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, you'll never see "New Linux password"
Linux, BSD etc. is kind of Unix, so... :P

passwd will always show "UNIX" (except someone hardcoded it to something else - very unlikely ;) )
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 04, 2002 6:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Probably should just leave the *nix part out. 'New Password:'
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 04, 2002 9:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

kanuslupus wrote:
Probably should just leave the *nix part out. 'New Password:'


Well, to do so that would be less than 30 minutes of work to the passwd team but who cares ? :)
I wouldn't mind if I get asked
"Enter you new 1337 cryptic pass pls:"
[although it would be strange ;)]
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 06, 2002 5:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"passwd" isn't so much a Linux program as it is a program to modify passwords for all UNIX-like operating systems. To my knowledge, there's nothing specifically Linux about it, which would make the patch somewhat extraneous.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 12:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

n0n wrote:
"passwd" isn't so much a Linux program as it is a program to modify passwords for all UNIX-like operating systems. To my knowledge, there's nothing specifically Linux about it, which would make the patch somewhat extraneous.


But a distribution could change _their_ passwd to say "Linux" and it would be right...(But we already figured out it would be senseless, so... ;) )
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