From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 17 03:49:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA04970 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 03:49:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from konig.elte.hu (konig.elte.hu [157.181.6.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA04790 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 03:45:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sebesty@cs.elte.hu) Received: from neumann.cs.elte.hu (neumann [157.181.6.200]) by konig.elte.hu (8.8.3/8.7.3/7s) with ESMTP id LAA05333; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 11:06:30 +0100 Received: from localhost (sebesty@localhost) by neumann.cs.elte.hu (8.8.3/8.7.3/4c) with ESMTP id LAA16928; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 11:05:53 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: neumann.cs.elte.hu: sebesty owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 11:05:53 +0100 (MET) From: Zoltan Sebestyen To: Joerg Wunsch cc: FreeBSD hackers mailinglist Subject: Re: Problems with passwd utility. In-Reply-To: <19971116210828.OU36167@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, J Wunsch wrote: > As Lucas Adri n GĒmez BlandĒn wrote: > > > Hi everyone, I'm install FreeBSD 2.1.7.1 (STABLE), it was a piece of > > cake!, but when a user call "passwd" he receive "Permision denied". > > That most likely means you're attempting to change the password for > someone else than yourself (e.g. since you're "su"ed to another user). I've got the same problem(and still have). I have to type 'passwd ' to get it work. Before that, I used vipw to edit the passwd file, because I discovered that my account was in a non-existent group. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sebestyen Zoltan It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up. szoli@digo.inf..elte.hu But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid? MAKE INSTALL NOT WAR