[wplug] Changed password not holding after reboot

[Brian Roberts]

Good thought.   I am not in front of the box right now, but will respond to
the thread as soon as I determine that.

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Larry Daberko <larry at daberko.com> wrote:

> Is the modification timestamp on the file updated or unchanged for both
> before and after reboot?
>
> Larry Daberko
>
> Brian Roberts wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have run into an issue and was wondering if anyone has ever had a
> > similar experience.   I did see this issue once before, but decided to
> > rebuild instead of investigate.
> >
> > When resetting a password for an end user account it seems that the
> > password sticks for the current session, but upon reboot it gets
> > reverted to the old pass.   I have confirmed this by backing up the
> > /etc/shadow and doing diffs on the files.   The original file keeps
> > coming back.   Its like a watchdog process is restoring the file, or
> > the ext3 filesystem is not saving the changes to disk.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Brian
> >
> >
> >
> >
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