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NetBSD 1.1 sparc passwd mystery
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (kiev@MIT.EDU)
Sat Aug 24 17:14:49 1996
To: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 17:09:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: kiev@MIT.EDU
We recently installed NetBSD 1.1 on a Sun 4/260. Everything was
working more or less well, and we created a few local user accounts.
We subsequently installed much Athena stuff. Somewhere along
the line the passwd command broke for local users:
> passwd
passwd: Permission denied
The result is the same for "/usr/bin/passwd" , "/usr/bin/passwd -l", etc.
The superuser *can* change local users' passwords using /usr/bin/passwd.
The file permissions of the files concerned, that I know of, are:
in /usr/bin:
-r-sr-xr-x 2 root wheel 24576 Nov 21 1995 passwd*
in /etc:
-rw------- 1 root wheel 1755 Aug 24 17:03 master.passwd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1501 Aug 24 17:03 passwd
Does anybody have any idea what's going on?
--Carl Alexander
kiev@mit.edu
