From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 6 05:52:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8423437B429 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 2003 05:52:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web41110.mail.yahoo.com (web41110.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.93.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F03F943FA3 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 2003 05:52:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwj_gb@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030606125234.28904.qmail@web41110.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [195.224.255.134] by web41110.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 06 Jun 2003 13:52:34 BST Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 13:52:34 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Mark=20Redding?= To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: passwd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 12:52:39 -0000 #snip# passwd needs to run setuid root, so it can write the new password to /etc/master.passwd: [homer: danielby: ~]$ ls -l `which passwd` -r-sr-xr-x 2 root wheel 32824 19 May 11:04 /usr/bin/passwd* You need to re-enable the setuid bit. #end-snip# That's not it I'm afraid. The setuid bit was set anyway, and anyway, users who are members of the wheel group can execute the passwd command without trouble (I've only switched off 'other' access). :-( ===== Mark W J Redding __________________________________________________ Yahoo! Plus - For a better Internet experience http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/yplus/yoffer.html