From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 16 12:21:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA12038 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 12:21:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA12031 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 12:20:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA25050; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 21:20:49 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id VAA16116; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 21:08:28 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19971116210828.OU36167@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 21:08:28 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: lgomez@guacari.udem.edu.co (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Lucas_Adri=A0n_G=A2mez_Bland=A2n?=) Subject: Re: Problems with passwd utility. References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3CPine=2EBSF=2E3=2E96=2E971111093602=2E5773A-100000=40gu?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?acari=2Eudem=2Eedu=2Eco=3E=3B_from_Lucas_Adri=A0n_G=A2mez?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?_Bland=A2n_on_Nov_11=2C_1997_09=3A38=3A48_-0500?= Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Lucas Adri n GĒmez BlandĒn wrote: > Hi everyone, I'm install FreeBSD 2.1.7.1 (STABLE), it was a piece of > cake!, but when a user call "passwd" he receive "Permision denied". That most likely means you're attempting to change the password for someone else than yourself (e.g. since you're "su"ed to another user). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)