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From: Cliff Addy <fbsdlist@revelstone.jvm.com>
To: Steve <shovey@buffnet.net>
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Subject: Re: Locked out of passwd
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On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Steve wrote:

> > I'm having trouble with clients being unable to run passwd.  I (or any 
> > member of wheel) can run it, but others get "permission denied".  The 
> > permissions on the passwd executable are 
> > 
> > r-sr-xr-x
> 
> Who is the owner though?!

Well, the owner is root, with group bin.  But, since *everyone* has read 
and execute permissions ( on this file and on the dir) ownership didn't 
seem relavent.  The point is that fbsd won't *run* the file (or doesn't 
appear to).  This problem now affects every user except root and *one* 
user, whose group memberships don't seem to be unique.

Cliff