More fun with LDAP

[Rick Stevens]

Mark A. Hoover wrote:
> I'm hoping there's somebody out there with some LDAP experience.  I've 
> run across something for which I haven't found an answer on Google.
> 
> I recently tried to use the passwd lock function on an account and 
> received the following:
> 
> [root at testbox root]$ passwd -l tuser
> Locking password for user tuser.
> passwd: Error (password not set?)

That smells of a bug in passwd, since all "-l" does is put a "!" in
front of the password.  It's possible that the system is not escaping
the "!" and is trying to background a task or bring up an old command.
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- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer     rstevens at vitalstream.com -
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