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Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 03:21:20 -0600 (MDT)
From: RJ45 <rj45@slacknet.com>
To: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>
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Subject: Re: passwd:  Permission denied
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when I Exectute it

durlindana{fddi}[~]> passwd
passwd: Permission denied


thanks

Rick


On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Christoph Sold wrote:

> 
> 
> RJ45 schrieb:
> > 
> > the permissions looks ok:
> > 
> > -r-sr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  46208 Apr 21 23:34 /usr/bin/passwd
> > 
> > I do not know why it says to me
> > 
> > passwd:  Permission denied
> > 
> > it works only from root
> > 
> > there is some particular conf file to set up ?
> 
> When does it say permission denied? If you try to edit the passwd file,
> this would be the error message for a file with no write permissions at
> all, suhc as the one shown above.
> 
> HTH
> -Christoph Sold
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