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Re: Can not change passwd?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile)
Thu Oct 24 08:46:16 1996

Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 08:43:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile" <scoile@patriot.net>
To: honglu@rt66.com
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961024063140.3767A-100000@blast>
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On Thu, 24 Oct 1996 honglu@rt66.com wrote:
> I have upgraded all errota, including new pam package. Still, user account 
> will get segmentation error. The only way now to change user passwd is 
> root account by "passwd user". Very impractical this way.

Sounds like the permissions on your "passwd" executable are set
incorrectly.  On my 3.0.3 system, the permissions are rwsr-xr-x and the
file is owned by user root, group root.  I'd imagine the permissions
should be the same under 4.0.

-S


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