Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 14:59:11 +0000 From: Jamie Heckford <heckfordj@psi-domain.co.uk> To: Andrew Stothard <andys@telinco.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Denying password change Message-ID: <20010302145911.K3993@storm.psi-domain.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10103021452400.278-100000@internal.mail.telinco.net>; from andys@telinco.net on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 14:57:16 %2B0000 References: <20010302143612.E3993@storm.psi-domain.co.uk> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10103021452400.278-100000@internal.mail.telinco.net>
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Thanks, that did it :) Jamie On 2001.03.02 14:57 Andrew Stothard wrote: > On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Jamie Heckford wrote: > > > Done that, but FreeBSD pops up the following message: > > > > rafiu# chmod go-x /usr/bin/passwd > > chmod: /usr/bin/passwd: Operation not permitted > > This is the kind of error message you get when something in the > filesystem is > immutable. Try doing an "ls -lo" on the file and see if it mentions > "schg". If > it does then you'll have to run chflags(1) on it. Should be something > like > "chflags noschg passwd". If you aren't allowed to do that then it's > probably > because the security level is set to be greater than 0. > > To check that run "sysctl -A | grep securelevel" and see what the value > is. If > it is greater than 0 then the only way to reduce it is to reboot. Make > sure > there's nothing in /etc/rc.conf that will raise the value, and reboot. > Should > work ok. > > andys > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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