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Date:      Sun, 30 Mar 1997 13:17:55 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <sysop@mixcom.com>
Cc:        ZAPPING ON LINE - Service de Presse <zapping@worldnet.fr>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Help !!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970330131719.242h-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970327151131.00c0e42c@mixcom.com>

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On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote:

> Huh?  What about 'passwd root' or 'chpass root'?

Don't you have to be root to do this?

gdi,ttyp4,~,30>chpass root
chpass: Permission denied
gdi,ttyp4,~,31>passwd root
passwd: Permission denied
gdi,ttyp4,~,32>id
uid=1000(dwhite) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel), 5(operator), 20(staff),
68(dialer), 117(dialer)

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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