Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 14:04:05 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: freebsd-reply@akruijff.dds.nl Cc: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: passwd and permission denied Message-ID: <20020629120405.GB213@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <16337164860.20020628181144@dds.nl> References: <20020616071321.D22154-100000@prime.gushi.org> <16337164860.20020628181144@dds.nl>
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> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 18:11:44 +0200
> From: Alex <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl>
> To: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org>
> Cc: questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: passwd and permission denied
>
> Sunday, June 16, 2002, 1:19:42 PM, you wrote:
> 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.
same here. I'm rebuilding fresh world and kernel right now, and will
send-pr if necessary.
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FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE
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