Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 23:56:19 -0700 (MST) From: Scott Mace <smace@metal-mail.neosoft.com> To: hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU (Howard Lew) Cc: brian@mediacity.com, bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: passwd broken in new snap??? Message-ID: <199503310656.XAA04105@metal.ops.neosoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950330203510.15689A-100000@vegemite.Stanford.EDU> from "Howard Lew" at Mar 30, 95 08:43:30 pm
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> > > > On Thu, 30 Mar 1995, Brian Litzinger wrote: > > > > > : I upgraded to 950322 SNAP from 950210 SNAP, and ever since I can't use > > > > : "passwd". (I didn't do a "full re-install", I just unpacked the bin/* > > > > make passwd setuid to root. > > chown root passwd > > chmod 4555 passwd (I think) > > that would be /usr/bin/passwd not /etc/passwd which is a file not a executable. > > Yep, I tried it and that doesn't fix it. Here's a log of what I did: > > paradise: {5} chown root passwd > paradise: {6} passwd > passwd: /etc/master.passwd: Permission denied > paradise: {7} chmod 4555 passwd > paradise: {8} passwd > passwd: /etc/master.passwd: Permission denied > paradise: {9} ls -al *passwd* > -rw------- 1 root wheel 1182 Mar 26 20:01 master.passwd > -r-sr-xr-x 1 root wheel 933 Mar 26 20:01 passwd > paradise: {10} > > Okay, no can do, so changed it back to the way it was: > paradise: {17} ls -al *passwd* > -rw------- 1 root wheel 1182 Mar 26 20:01 master.passwd > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 933 Mar 26 20:01 passwd > paradise: {18} passwd > passwd: /etc/master.passwd: Permission denied > paradise: {19} > > Any ideas? I think passwd is broken in the new snap release. I'll try > the passwd command from the older snap and see if that fixes the problem. > >
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