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Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 17:07:23 +0200
From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>
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To: RJ45 <rj45@slacknet.com>, questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: passwd:  Permission denied
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RJ45 schrieb:
> 
> 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 ?

When does it say permission denied? If you try to edit the passwd file,
this would be the error message for a file with no write permissions at
all, suhc as the one shown above.

HTH
-Christoph Sold

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