[wplug] Changed password not holding after reboot

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Thursday, May 06, 2010 12:52:56 pm Brian Roberts wrote:
> Thanks for the help all.   It ended up that another tech was able to find
> the original passwords, so this mystery has been shelved.    His
> explanation was that it was a Ubuntu specific thing and resetting the root
> password messed up the "access tokens".
> 
> I've been dealing with Linux and password files for a while and I am not
> quite satisfied with that answer.

I'd like to know more about that.  Cron's the only thing I've heard of getting 
a bit weird after you've set a root password and re-locked the account.  
However, you made no mention of having done anything to the root password to 
start with.

> Does anyone now if the Ubuntu Launchpad products somehow allows for a
> shared password / directory service?   Going to read up now.

Like LDAP? No...

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