Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 15:10:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Veggy Vinny <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> To: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /usr/bin/passwd and finger output Message-ID: <Pine.PTX.3.91.960719145805.11997N-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199607192129.RAA16896@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
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On Fri, 19 Jul 1996, Bill Paul wrote: > Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Veggy Vinny had > to walk into mine and say: > > > A few days ago, I reported that the latest -current's > > /usr/bin/passwd won't work for people not in the wheel group. Today > > with the latest -current build, the same thing still happens: > > > > dennis@mercury [1:45pm][~] >> passwd > > passwd: Permission denied > > dennis@mercury [1:45pm][~] >> dir /usr/bin/passwd > > -r-sr-xr-x 2 root bin 32768 Jul 19 12:45 /usr/bin/passwd > > dennis@mercury [1:45pm][~] >> > > How about trying 'which passwd' and seeing what it returns? How > about trying to run /usr/bin/passwd explicitly (with the full path)? > You sure you don't have a /usr/local/bin/passwd or a cutsey alias > hidden away somewhere? yep, because this is what I got: dennis@mercury [2:57pm][~] >> which passwd /usr/bin/passwd dennis@mercury [2:57pm][~] >> dir /usr/local/bin/passwd colorls: /usr/local/bin/passwd: No such file or directory dennis@mercury [2:58pm][~] >> but when I do it from a account that's in group wheel: vince@mercury [2:55pm][~] >> passwd Changing local password for vince. Old password: (I hit CTRL-D here) passwd: Permission denied passwd: /etc/master.passwd: unchanged vince@mercury [3:08pm][~] >> which passwd /usr/bin/passwd vince@mercury [3:08pm][~] >> It works fine... > > This is happening on 4 different machines so it's not a configuration > > issue. Is there a work around this? > > Somebody else out there please test this. I don't have a -current box > handy with which to test it myself (I'll try it on my 2.1 box tonight). I > strongly suspect that it is some sort of configuration error, albeit a > bizarre one. I suspect this mainly because nobody else has reported > having the same trouble. Hmmm, this happened after the code change to chpass and passwd for the sources a week or so ago. > > Also, the finger output seems to be really different than the > > previous one atleast for the date and time. > > > > Login: dennis Name: Dennis Pang > > Directory: /home/dennis Shell: /usr/local/bin/tcsh > > Last login 07/16/96 10:01:1 (PDT) on ttyp3 from 206.28.134.6 > > New mail received 07/17/96 21:54:4 (PDT) > > Unread since 07/16/96 10:01:2 (PDT) > > No Plan. > > > > Vince > > Somebody hacked a bit on the stdtime stuff in libc recently and I > think there were some problems (times reported by ls were a little > busted too, apparently). You may have to sup again and rebuild libc. Oh okay, will do that... Vince
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