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Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 05:54:06 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Stephen D. Spencer" <bsd-alpha@boneyard.lawrence.ks.us>
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Subject: Re: passwd problem.
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On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it wrote:

> [...] 
> durlindana{fddi}[~]> passwd
> passwd: Permission denied
> [...] 
> 

Is /usr/bin/passwd suid root?

-r-sr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  26884 Jun 29 06:36 passwd

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Stephen Spencer
UNIX Systems Administrator
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Dept.
University of Kansas



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