Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 23:04:14 -0600 From: Elvedin <mnsan11@earthlink.net> To: Mark <admin@asarian-host.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: passwd Message-ID: <405E73CE.9000302@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <200403220435.I2M4ZU9B075450@asarian-host.net> References: <405E580A.2040305@earthlink.net> <200403220435.I2M4ZU9B075450@asarian-host.net>
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Mark wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Elvedin" <mnsan11@earthlink.net> >To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> >Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 5:06 AM >Subject: passwd > > > > >>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. >> >> > >644 should be the proper permission on /etc/pwd.db. And is /usr/bin/passwd >still setuid root? > >Did you set any special flags on /etc/pwd.db? Like sunlnk, schg? (ls -lo >will tell). And what are the permissions on /etc itself? > >- Mark > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > drwxr-xr-x 17 root wheel - 2048 Mar 21 21:57 etc -rwxr--r-- 1 root wheel - 40960 Mar 21 21:57 pwd.db -rwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 32824 Oct 27 09:31 passwd I didn't change passwd or anything related to it at all and I think this has existed since the install since it has been brought to my attention just recently but I didn't notice it before since I was always root and changed my passwords from there. -- Elvedin T. sysadmin.ods.org <http://sysadmin.ods.org>; ODS.org <http://www.ods.org>;
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