Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 00:15:55 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: passwd: Permission denied Message-ID: <20020904231555.GC28529@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <200209041755.24531.bts@babbleon.org> References: <200209041755.24531.bts@babbleon.org>
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On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 05:55:24PM -0400, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:
>
> I have a user account that can't change its own password. If it tries,
> it gets:
>
> passwd: Permission denied
That usually indicates an attempt by an ordinary non-privileged user
to change the password of another user.
When you cloned the account did you perhaps not give it a unique UID
number? This snippet will print out how often each UID number is
mentioned in the master.passwd file:
awk -F: '{ print $3 }' < /etc/master.passwd | sort -n | uniq -c
It can also occur if you remove the SUID bit from /usr/bin/passwd or
mount /usr nosuid, but then no one other than root would be able to
change passwords.
Cheers,
Matthew
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