From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 4 14:56:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5637437B401 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 14:56:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp3.southeast.rr.com (smtp3.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6417D43E4A for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 14:56:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@fake.com) Received: from mail5.nc.rr.com (fe5 [24.93.67.52]) by smtp3.southeast.rr.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g84LuEga012028 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 17:56:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from this.is.fake.com ([24.162.238.30]) by mail5.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Wed, 4 Sep 2002 17:56:36 -0400 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id B25FFBA18; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 17:55:24 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: passwd: Permission denied Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 17:55:24 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200209041755.24531.bts@babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a user account that can't change its own password. If it tries, it gets: passwd: Permission denied Other user accounts seem to be ok, so I figure that I screwed something up when I created the user account. I believe that I "cloned" this account from my existing account by using vipw rather than by going through the usual newuser process, so there must be some step that I omitted. Does anybody have a clue what that might be? -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message