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Re: Administrator password


  • Subject: Re: Administrator password
  • From: Dan Shoop <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:05:59 -0500

At 12:08 PM -0800 11/10/06, Jeffrey Ellis wrote:
Is there a way to check if the user has given us the correct administrator
password?

There isn't necessarily a singular administrator account, and of course then there's also root.


First you might check to verify that they gave you a admin user by checking to see if it's a member of the admin group.

Next you can check that the password they gave you is correct with `chkpasswd`; see it's man page.
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-dhan

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