[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#706003: passwd: usermod -o requires -u

[Nicolas François]

Hello,

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 02:15:28PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> 
> Between 4.14.2 and 4.1.5.1, usermod changed so that you need to provide
> the uid of a non-unique user when changing the password.  Previously,
> you could do:
> 
> usermod -p '$hash' -o root
> 
> and it would work, now you need to do -o root -u 0, which seems
> redundant.

Why do you want to use the -o option?

Wouldn't it be sufficient to use the following?
	usermod -p '$hash' root

Best Regards,
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Nekral