From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 27 12:23:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA03704 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 12:23:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from michelle.esfm.ipn.mx (Michelle.esfm.ipn.mx [148.204.104.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA03579 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 12:23:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx) Received: from localhost (mrspock@localhost) by michelle.esfm.ipn.mx (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA02406 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 14:21:03 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: michelle.esfm.ipn.mx: mrspock owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 14:21:01 -0600 (CST) From: Eduardo Viruena Silva To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Changing passwords on FreeBSD 2.2.5 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG O FreeBSD Gurus, I have another question for you... I own a FreeBSD 2.2.5 box, and I opened an account for my brother. I do not know why he cannot change his password. When he tries to do it, FreeBSD issues this message: Michelle:/home/glenn> passwd passwd: Permission denied Now, the permisssions are: Michelle:/home/glenn> ls -l `which passwd` -r-sr-xr-x 2 root bin 32768 Oct 21 09:19 /usr/bin/passwd Michelle:/home/glenn> ls -l /etc/*p*w* -rw------- 1 root wheel 2134 Mar 26 23:45 /etc/master.passwd -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1790 Mar 26 23:45 /etc/passwd -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 40960 Mar 26 23:45 /etc/pwd.db -rw------- 1 root wheel 40960 Mar 26 23:45 /etc/spwd.db What is happening? HHHHEEEELLLLPPPP!!!! ______ _ * / /###\ / \ __ /\ /\ * / ./#### \ * \__|_/ | | / \/ \ | b#####| * _ | __ | | __ = .. \____ \ \_\#####/ / \| / \ | | /\_\/ = \_| * \___\###/ * \_/\_/\__/\__\/_/\__/ = \______/ _ | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message