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Date:      Wed, 04 Jul 2001 17:07:23 +0200
From:      Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>
To:        RJ45 <rj45@slacknet.com>, questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: passwd:  Permission denied
Message-ID:  <3B43312B.93C298A3@i-clue.de>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0107040820210.4251-100000@slacknet.slacknet.com>

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RJ45 schrieb:
> 
> the permissions looks ok:
> 
> -r-sr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  46208 Apr 21 23:34 /usr/bin/passwd
> 
> I do not know why it says to me
> 
> passwd:  Permission denied
> 
> it works only from root
> 
> there is some particular conf file to set up ?

When does it say permission denied? If you try to edit the passwd file,
this would be the error message for a file with no write permissions at
all, suhc as the one shown above.

HTH
-Christoph Sold

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