Re: [webmin-l] {?} Re: Virtualmin users getting passwords resetted

[Dave S. Y. - S. A. a.k.a. T. R. of t. P. <ro...@do...>]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 04:19:51PM -0700, Jamie Cameron wrote:
> On 20/Mar/2008 15:54 Dave Shariff Yadallee - System Administrator a.k.a. The Root of the  Problem wrote ..
> > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 02:44:11PM -0700, Jamie Cameron wrote:
> > > On 20/Mar/2008 10:49 Dave Shariff Yadallee - System Administrator a.k.a. The
> > Root of the  Problem wrote ..
> > > > USing VirtualMin (Free) V3.53 gpl.
> > > > 
> > > > For some strange reason, we assigned the domain manager a different
> > > > password from the FreeBSD system master.passwd ; yet, it is 
> > > > using the system password at times.
> > > > 
> > > > Is this a known bug?
> > > > 
> > > > Any remedies?
> > > 
> > > You should keep them in sync - Virtualmin will often set the unix
> > > user's password in master.passwd to be when is set in the domain.
> > > If you change the Unix password behind it's back with the 'passwd'
> > > command, it will be changed back after a while..
> > >
> > 
> > Any chance that another password file could be used?
> 
> No .. but why would you want to do this exactly?
>


Beacuse one may want to separate the master password file from the application
paasword file, for example .htaccess and .htpasswd used in httpd.
 
>  - Jamie
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