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To: Cliff Addy <fbsdlist@revelstone.jvm.com>
cc: Steve <shovey@buffnet.net>, questions@freebsd.org
From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Locked out of passwd 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 28 Oct 1996 16:03:48 EST."
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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 00:54:29 -0500
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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
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Gary Palmer                                          FreeBSD Core Team Member
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