From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 29 13:40: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1158E37B532 for ; Mon, 29 May 2000 13:39:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA10568; Mon, 29 May 2000 13:38:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <3932D53F.228DB7D8@gorean.org> Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 13:38:23 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0528 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "O. Hartmann" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: password change lock References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "O. Hartmann" wrote: > > How to prevent users from changing a password on a common > account on a FreeBSD 4.0 box? We use a common account with > some little restrictions but we do not want a user changing the > password on this account. Can anybody help? You could change the permissions on 'passwd' so that they cannot execute it. Depending on your circumstances, you should probably change 'chpass' as well. Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message