From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 16 4:15: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from DNS2.alterity.net (dns2.alterity.net [198.63.17.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AF5837B412 for ; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 04:15:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from prime.gushi.org (root@prime.gushi.org [208.23.118.172]) by DNS2.alterity.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5GBCsr53170 for ; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 07:12:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from danm@prime.gushi.org) Received: from localhost (danm@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by prime.gushi.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5GBJggp022230 for ; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 07:19:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 07:19:42 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: passwd and permission denied Message-ID: <20020616071321.D22154-100000@prime.gushi.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Hey all, I'm having a bit of trouble. When regular, non-wheel users type passwd, they get "permission denied". They don't get prompted for their old password, it's just permission denied. I've verified the permissions on /usr/bin/passwd are r-sr-xr-x, and users are able to run yppasswd (which diffs as the SAME PROGRAM), so I think it's actually passwd reporting the error, rather than the shell. Root and members of the wheel group are able to use passwd normally. This is under 4.5-STABLE. -Dan Mahoney PS, Please reply directly, I'm not subscribed. -- "It would be bad." -Egon Spengler, "Ghostbusters" --------Dan Mahoney-------- Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Web: http://prime.gushi.org finger danm@prime.gushi.org for pgp public key and tel# --------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message