From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 28 9:11: 2 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 3738E37B401 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 09:10:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp06.wxs.nl (smtp06.wxs.nl [195.121.6.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D3F343E06 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 09:10:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl) Received: from cybertron.kruijff ([213.10.151.186]) by smtp06.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GYFBM502.NHS; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 18:10:53 +0200 Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 18:11:44 +0200 From: Alex X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) Reply-To: freebsd-reply@akruijff.dds.nl X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <16337164860.20020628181144@dds.nl> To: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: passwd and permission denied In-Reply-To: <20020616071321.D22154-100000@prime.gushi.org> References: <20020616071321.D22154-100000@prime.gushi.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Dear System, Sunday, June 16, 2002, 1:19:42 PM, you wrote: DMSA> Hey all, DMSA> I'm having a bit of trouble. When regular, non-wheel users type passwd, DMSA> they get "permission denied". They don't get prompted for their old DMSA> password, it's just permission denied. I've verified the permissions on DMSA> /usr/bin/passwd are r-sr-xr-x, and users are able to run yppasswd (which DMSA> diffs as the SAME PROGRAM), so I think it's actually passwd reporting the DMSA> error, rather than the shell. DMSA> Root and members of the wheel group are able to use passwd normally. DMSA> This is under 4.5-STABLE. I checked and i got the same on my 4.6 system. -- Best regards, Alex The FreeBSD handbook www.freebsd.org/handbook To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message