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Date:         Thu, 2 Sep 1999 18:48:13 +0300
From: Mihai Ibanescu <misa@NECOMM.RO>
Subject:      Re: RH 6.0 shadowed users and user lock bug fix
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM

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On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Prince Ctrl wrote:

> Aleph,
>
> After confirming with our Sr. Systems Admin, RedHat was contacted and
> they confirmed that it was indeed a bug within 'passwd'. You can
> download the new version of passwd and it will fix this problem.
>
> http://people.redhat.com/~smooge/passwd-0.60-1.i386.rpm

The link above is a redirect to www.redhat.com. Since there was no patch
posted, here it comes, attached.

Cheers,
Misa

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