Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 00:11:18 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Cc: richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Veggy Vinny) Subject: Re: /usr/bin/passwd and finger output Message-ID: <199607192211.AAA01154@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.PTX.3.91.960719135011.11997H-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> from Veggy Vinny at "Jul 19, 96 01:53:34 pm"
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As Veggy Vinny wrote: > A few days ago, I reported that the latest -current's > /usr/bin/passwd won't work for people not in the wheel group. Today > with the latest -current build, the same thing still happens: > > dennis@mercury [1:45pm][~] >> passwd > passwd: Permission denied I cannot confirm this. The only bogosity (but not a new one actually, i've verified the logs) is that passwd(1) defaults to the user as obtained by getlogin(), so if you su(1) to another user, passwd without an argument would still attempt to set the passwd for the logged in user (and will not allow this unless the calling user is root). Everything else works well. Btw., chpass(1) seems to default to the user as obtained by getuid(), which looks more rational. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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