From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 11 12:33:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA21903 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:33:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from NIH2WAAE (smtp5.site1.csi.com [149.174.183.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA21883 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:33:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from berend@pobox.com) Received: from mail pickup service by csi.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:33:14 -0400 Received: from auke.deboer (pd14-207.par.compuserve.com [195.232.78.207]) by hil-img-ims-2.compuserve.com (8.8.6/8.8.6/IMS-1.4) with ESMTP id PAA25630 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:32:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from bmach (bmach.deboer [192.168.33.3]) by auke.deboer (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA28116 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 21:29:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from berend@pobox.com) Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 21:29:14 +0200 Message-ID: <01BDC56F.163B51F0.berend@pobox.com> From: Berend de Boer To: "FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Change in pw: should be root Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 21:29:11 +0200 Organization: NederWare X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hai All, I noticed that pw has changed its behaviour. You need to be root now, even if you only query things. Why is this? Why can't root access not be checked when actually changing things? Groetjes, Berend. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message