From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 2 10: 8:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kazak.wmdesign.net (kazak.wmdesign.net [4.19.114.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8827D37B42C for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 10:08:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wmdesign.net (apache@harmonium.wmdesign.net [4.19.114.83]) by kazak.wmdesign.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA34983 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 12:08:57 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tduffey@wmdesign.net) Received: from 169.207.128.211 (SquirrelMail authenticated user tduffey) by www.wmdesign.net with HTTP; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 12:14:00 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <2091.169.207.128.211.967914840.squirrel@www.wmdesign.net> Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 12:14:00 -0500 (CDT) Subject: problem with passwd From: "Thomas M. Duffey" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 0.5pre1) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear FreeBSD Users, I have three FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE machines here, and all have the same problem. If a normal user (i.e. not root, not in wheel group) tries to change their password, the following occurs: su-2.03$ passwd passwd: Permission denied However, the following works: su-2.03$ passwd my_user_name Changing local password for my_user_name. Old password: I've read a few messages similar to this in the archives but there were no answers. Is this normal behavior? Please cc replies to my email address. Best Regards, Tom Duffey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message