<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Johannes<div><br></div><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Changing the shell user's password can be done by running 'passwd'; if you want to be perfectly safe, try logging in with a second ssh session to verify the new password before you log out of the original session.<br><br></div></blockquote><br></div></div><div>Thanks!</div><div>Unfortunately, it doesn't work quite like that, i.e. I get an error message:</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><div><div>dssadmin@dSS11-sto:~$ passwd</div></div></div><div><div><div>Changing password for dssadmin</div></div></div><div><div><div>Old password:</div></div></div><div><div><div>Enter the new password (minimum of 5, maximum of 8 characters)</div></div></div><div><div><div>Please use a combination of upper and lower case letters and numbers.</div></div></div><div><div><div>Enter new password: </div></div></div><div><div><div>*** glibc detected *** passwd: free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x0001f908 ***</div></div></div><div><div><div>Aborted</div></div></div></blockquote><div><div><div><br></div></div>I'm not sure whether it's a problem of insufficient permissions. I didn't dare to try it for root.</div><div><br></div><div>BTW, 'su root' works. But having root without a password seems somewhat delicate too.</div><div>Could and shouldn't I change that password as well?</div><div><br></div><div>It's not an urgent issue, just something to sort out over time.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Dieter</div><div><br></div></body></html>