From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 8 11:52:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jeeves.poopie.net (jeeves.poopie.net [151.198.231.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5A9815677 for ; Sat, 8 May 1999 11:52:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pete@jeeves.poopie.net) Received: from localhost (pete@localhost) by jeeves.poopie.net (8.9.2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA13237 for ; Sat, 8 May 1999 14:54:52 GMT Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 14:54:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Pedro Leitao To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: passwd In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hmm, for some reason my users can't change their passwords. I turned their permissions to run chfn off, but I didn't do anything to passwd. I tried to fix but.... before doing anything passwd's permissions where -r-sr-xr-x 2 root wheel 24976 Feb 15 10:44 /usr/bin/passwd now after screwing around I get -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 24976 Feb 15 10:44 /usr/bin/passwd when a user tries to change his password it gets this passwd: error opening database: /etc/pwd.db.: Permission denied passwd: /etc/master.passwd: unchanged thanx in advance... _P_ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message