From owner-freebsd-security Mon Mar 3 11:11:59 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF73D37B401 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 11:11:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from dc.cis.okstate.edu (dc.cis.okstate.edu [139.78.100.219]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F90343FE3 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 11:11:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu) Received: from dc.cis.okstate.edu (localhost.cis.okstate.edu [127.0.0.1]) by dc.cis.okstate.edu (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h23JBuBv090161 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 13:11:57 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu) Message-Id: <200303031911.h23JBuBv090161@dc.cis.okstate.edu> To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Permission Denied on passwd Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 13:11:56 -0600 From: Martin McCormick Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Eilko Bos writes: >Are you very sure your password you typed is correct? Actually, my face is quite red at this time. What actually happened was that I was using the wrong password and then compounded the confusion by using the wrong password on another new account I had set up. that is why I thought all non-root users were having the same trouble. Thanks to all of you for your effort and I am sorry I wasted your time. One time, I ended up with a system on which sendmail wouldn't work for anybody but root because it complained about a certain directory being world-writable. That particular system had been set up by several different people and I finally ran a diagnostic for sendmail that produces a trace until it hits the trouble spot. Somebody had made /usr world-writable for some unknown reason. Anyway, I thought I had dome something like that and killed passwd. Yes, UNIX is my day job! Times like this are certainly humbling. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Center for Computing and Information Services Network Operations Group To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message