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Date:      Sat, 29 Jun 2002 16:09:48 +0200
From:      Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: passwd and permission denied
Message-ID:  <20020629140948.GA232@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20020629120405.GB213@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
References:  <20020616071321.D22154-100000@prime.gushi.org> <16337164860.20020628181144@dds.nl> <20020629120405.GB213@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>

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> 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
> 
> > 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.

    done, see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=39995

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