SUMMARY: passwd problems

From: Felipe Rivera (felipe@sunasci.infored.com.mx)
Date: Wed Aug 21 1996 - 22:52:59 CDT


Sorry for the empty subject in the original mail.. i didn't realize until I
started to receive answers..

Well... My question:

>Hi.... i have a weird problem... obviously i'm missin something.. but
>don't know what!! :)
>
>passwd's rights
> -r-sr-xr-x 1 root 32768 Aug 21 00:23 /usr/bin/passwd
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root 89048 Aug 20 23:37 /etc/passwd
>
>this is SunOS 4.1.3 ... they seem to be ok??? right???? well.. any user
>that doesn't belong to group whell can't execute /usr/bin/passwd
>
>% passwd
>Permission denied.
>
> What's wrong????
>
>Thanx...!

And the right answer came from:

Terry Snyder <tss@breacad.beckman.com>

>Felipe,
>
>How about trying
>passwd username
>not just passwd.
>That should work... are su'ing to root then su'ing to the user???
>That's what it sounds like, and thats why it doesnt work.

Those two last lines was the reason of my problem.... thanx again!! :)
Thanx to all the people who answered me :)

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