From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 28 22:25:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA08514 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 22:25:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA08508 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 22:25:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA22445; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 22:25:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 22:25:06 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Jonathan Fosburgh cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem with passwd In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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