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sun4 [8.3.23]: /usr/bin/passwd in single user mode

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Mon Jan 3 21:21:38 2000

Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 21:21:30 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200001040221.VAA24655@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>
To: bugs@mit.edu
CC: jweiss@mit.edu
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>


System name:		speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu
Type and version:	Ultra-1 8.3.23
Display type:		ffb

Shell:			/usr/local/bin/sipbtcsh
Window manager:		/usr/local/bin/vtwm.gamma

What were you trying to do?
	use passwd in single user mode


What went wrong?
	permission denied


Yo, got any documentation, or other info?
	I believe this is because /usr/lib/security is remote.


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