Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 22:25:06 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Jonathan Fosburgh <jef53313@Bayou.UH.EDU> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem with passwd Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971128222446.22417D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95q.971123031217.31971A-100000@Bayou.UH.EDU>
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On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Jonathan Fosburgh wrote: > I recently had a very serious problem which resulted in my needing to > reinstall fbsd (half the system got lost in a very bad crash), and now > when I attempt passwd as a non-root, I get the error: > > passwd: error opening database: /etc/pwd.db.: Permission denied Check your permissions: gdi,ttyp1,~,13>ls -l /usr/bin/passwd /etc/*.db -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 32768 Apr 16 1997 /etc/aliases.db -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 40960 Nov 6 23:14 /etc/pwd.db -rw------- 1 root wheel 40960 Nov 6 23:14 /etc/spwd.db -r-sr-xr-x 2 root bin 32768 Oct 20 09:36 /usr/bin/passwd* Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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