Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 18:11:44 +0200 From: Alex <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> To: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: passwd and permission denied Message-ID: <16337164860.20020628181144@dds.nl> In-Reply-To: <20020616071321.D22154-100000@prime.gushi.org> References: <20020616071321.D22154-100000@prime.gushi.org>
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Dear System, Sunday, June 16, 2002, 1:19:42 PM, you wrote: DMSA> Hey all, DMSA> I'm having a bit of trouble. When regular, non-wheel users type passwd, DMSA> they get "permission denied". They don't get prompted for their old DMSA> password, it's just permission denied. I've verified the permissions on DMSA> /usr/bin/passwd are r-sr-xr-x, and users are able to run yppasswd (which DMSA> diffs as the SAME PROGRAM), so I think it's actually passwd reporting the DMSA> error, rather than the shell. DMSA> Root and members of the wheel group are able to use passwd normally. DMSA> This is under 4.5-STABLE. I checked and i got the same on my 4.6 system. -- Best regards, Alex The FreeBSD handbook www.freebsd.org/handbook To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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