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Another account with same uid as root gets prompted to set new password for root, not itself

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http://unix.stackexchange.com – After upgrading the os from 5300-06 to 5300-11, this weird behaviour happened. My system had another unix account, let's call it "abc", purposely configured its uid to 0 for working as a root with all its authorities. It has been run like this for years and worked completely fine. However after the upgrade, when abc's password expires, rather than prompting immediately after its successful login for a new password, it is now asking to change "root"'s password, and it really is changing root's password not abc's. If I change abc's uid to another unique id, it will successfully says to change (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 10/05/2012

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What am I missing? I change the root password on a unix machine, then try to log in with that password. PasswordAuthentication is set to yes in sshd_config and the sshd daemon has been restarted.

I just installed ubuntu on my netbook and am loving it!!

What I’m now trying to do is set up my root account. I tried to run the following command at a command prompt:

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and use the password for the main account i set up during the install process. but that didn't work.

Currently they are the same with 2 of my dedicated server.

I wonder if I change my cpanel whm password, will the root ssh password change too?

The other way around, if I change the ssh password with password command, will whm password change too?

This thread http://forums.cpanel.net/f5/changing-whm-root-password-command-line-3457... seems to suggest that it's yes but somehow doesn't work for

Hello,

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As part of trying to implement a security measure in my root ssh session, I'm trying to devise a method of starting a script after n seconds of root user login, and change the user password and logout the user automatically.

I'm getting stuck at trying to change the password silently.

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