Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:23:57 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: falaki@ce.sharif.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: passwd command problem. Message-ID: <20040121192357.GD36015@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <1101.81.31.169.172.1074738946.squirrel@ce.sharif.edu> References: <1101.81.31.169.172.1074738946.squirrel@ce.sharif.edu>
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 09:35:46PM -0500, falaki@ce.sharif.edu wrote:
> Hello;
> For some reason I had to add the passwd files of a previous FreeBSD 4.4
> server to a new 4.9 one. I added passwd and master.passwd. Then I
> updated the db files. Now every thing is OK and all users can login.
> My problem is that only the users in the wheel group can use passwd to
> change their passwords. The permissions of /usr/bin/passwd is:
> -r-sr-sr-x 2 root wheel 32824 Oct 27 2003 /usr/bin/passwd
>
> I cannot understand the reason. Can anybody help me.
The permissions of /usr/bin/passwd should be:
-r-sr-xr-x 2 root wheel 28828 Jan 19 08:27 /usr/bin/passwd
You've got the setgid bit set on yours.
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Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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