Hi, I had this problem already years ago (http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba-ntdom/1998-December/016745.html): When trying to setup a password chat under OSF1 or Tru64 the "passwd program" core dumps when reaching an input state. This seems to be always true, when a password changing program makes use of the function getpass(3), whose man page is attached. The getpass() function opens the process' controlling terminal file, flushes output, disables echoing, and reads up to a newline character or an end-of-file (EOF) character. The terminal state is then restored and the controlling terminal is closed. My guess is that getpass(3) drops dead because it sees no tty attached to the process. So the question is, has anyone ever used anything working under OSF1/Tru64 in the passwd program? And if yes, how did he do it? Thanks, Axel. -- Axel.Thimm@physik.fu-berlin.de -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: getpass.man Type: application/x-troff-man Size: 3002 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/20010118/62e26a01/getpass.man