Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 00:54:29 -0500 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@freebsd.org> To: Cliff Addy <fbsdlist@revelstone.jvm.com> Cc: Steve <shovey@buffnet.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Locked out of passwd Message-ID: <29865.846741269@orion.webspan.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Oct 1996 16:03:48 EST." <Pine.BSF.3.91.961028160026.9882B-100000@revelstone.jvm.com>
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Cliff Addy wrote in message ID <Pine.BSF.3.91.961028160026.9882B-100000@revelstone.jvm.com>: > On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Steve wrote: > > > > I'm having trouble with clients being unable to run passwd. I (or any > > > member of wheel) can run it, but others get "permission denied". The > > > permissions on the passwd executable are > > > > > > r-sr-xr-x > > > > Who is the owner though?! > > Well, the owner is root, with group bin. But, since *everyone* has read > and execute permissions ( on this file and on the dir) ownership didn't > seem relavent. The point is that fbsd won't *run* the file (or doesn't > appear to). This problem now affects every user except root and *one* > user, whose group memberships don't seem to be unique. Check there aren't some sort of weird permission promblems on both the directories and contents of /usr/lib and the file /usr/libexec/ld.so, or that those dirs aren't NFS mounted with `-root=nobody' or something on the server. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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