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Date:      Thu, 18 May 95 11:18:12 METDST
From:      stein@ife.no (Stein Morten Sandbech)
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        stein@ife.no
Subject:   passwd problem.
Message-ID:  <9505180918.AA07622@tigern.ife.no>

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Hi, and thaks for a VERY good OS and apps :-) 

I had one small problem with the SNAP 950412 and passwords.

After installing BIN ... XFree86 3.1.1 (except security) I got a problem with
setting the password for any user ( including root ). 

After looking into the problem I noticed that /usr/bin/passwd was owned by
bin, and with the s-bit set and the /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd owned
by root, this operation failed.

I changed the owner from bin to root on /usr/bin/passwd, then no problem!

Is this a minor bug, or did I screw something up during installation (like not
installing security)?

Regards 

/*  Stein M Sandbech                             Email: stein@ife.no          **
**  Software Engineer, EDB dept                  Email: steinms@oslonett.no   **
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