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From: RJ45 <rj45@slacknet.com>
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Subject: passwd:  Permission denied
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the permissions looks ok:

-r-sr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  46208 Apr 21 23:34 /usr/bin/passwd

I do not know why it says to me

passwd:  Permission denied

it works only from root

there is some particular conf file to set up ?

thanks

Rick



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