Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 23:40:44 -0600 From: Elvedin <mnsan11@earthlink.net> To: Mark <admin@asarian-host.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: passwd Message-ID: <405E7C5C.80808@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <200403220529.I2M5TM0R077334@asarian-host.net> References: <405E580A.2040305@earthlink.net> <200403220435.I2M4ZU9B075450@asarian-host.net> <405E73CE.9000302@earthlink.net> <200403220529.I2M5TM0R077334@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 > > > >>>644 should be the proper permission on /etc/pwd.db. And is >>>/usr/bin/passwd still setuid root? >>> >>> >>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 ... >> >> > >Well, something changed alright. As I expected, your passwd no longer seems >to be setuid root! Like so: > >-r-sr-xr-x 1 root wheel 32504 Oct 9 2002 /usr/bin/passwd > >If it is not setuid root, regular users can, obviously, no longer can change >their own passwords. Change it back: > >chmod u+s /usr/bin/passwd > >That will do it. It might be of interest, though, to figure out why this >change occured. > >- Mark > > > > That resolved it, thank you very much. I really have no clue why this came up since I haven't changed any permissions at all in /usr/bin or anything passwd related before this. If only my setuid logs were set to keep logs from the beginning instead of for today and yesterday... -- Elvedin T. sysadmin.ods.org <http://sysadmin.ods.org>; ODS.org <http://www.ods.org>;
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