Fix broken passwd on 1.1.3 or higher

On 1.1.3 or 1.1.4 (or maybe higher), the "passwd" utility refused to work correctly and could mess up your springboard. The tool is necessary to change the password on BSD Subsystem 2.1. To fix this problem, replace the existing "passwd" binary file with the given.

Download and extract passwd.zip,
and move the file with AFPd (for example) to /usr/bin/ , chmod to 755:
# cd /usr/bin
# chmod 755 passwd
# passwd
# Enter new password:
# ...

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