From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 21 20:05:45 2004 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 F397916A4CE for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 20:05:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCB7F43D2D for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 20:05:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mnsan11@earthlink.net) Received: from h-68-164-9-27.chcgilgm.dynamic.covad.net ([68.164.9.27] helo=sysadmin.ods.org) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1B5Gh5-0004zh-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 20:05:43 -0800 Received: from earthlink.net (VICE [192.168.1.33]) by sysadmin.ods.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3588A2D1EA5 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 22:06:20 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <405E580A.2040305@earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 21:05:46 -0600 From: Elvedin User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: 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: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 04:05:45 -0000 My problem that exists with passwd is when regular users try to change their passwords, they get this message - passwd: error opening database: /etc/pwd.db.: Permission denied passwd: /etc/master.passwd: unchanged I've search and came up with nothing really but some things I've tried is adding the users to the wheel group, remaking the pwd database file and even setting pwd.db to 777 and still permission was denied. Any ideas? (FreeBSD 4.9-SECURITY #0) -- Elvedin T. sysadmin.ods.org ODS.org