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From: Frank Bonnet on 18 Sep 2009 03:40 Hello I'm trying to change a local user passwd as root and I get this error message ... which seems a bit unreal to me ... passwd: Permission denied passwd: password unchanged The machine is running Lenny 64 bits Thank you -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Sven Joachim on 18 Sep 2009 04:10 On 2009-09-18 09:34 +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote: > I'm trying to change a local user passwd as root and I get this error > message ... which seems a bit unreal to me ... > > > passwd: Permission denied > passwd: password unchanged What does "lsattr /etc/passwd /etc/shadow" print? Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Jerome BENOIT on 18 Sep 2009 04:10 Hello Frank, what gives ls -l /etc/passwd lsattr /etc/passwd ? Jerome Frank Bonnet wrote: > Hello > > I'm trying to change a local user passwd as root and I get this error > message ... which seems a bit unreal to me ... > > > passwd: Permission denied > passwd: password unchanged > > > The machine is running Lenny 64 bits > > Thank you > > -- Jerome BENOIT jgmbenoit_at_mailsnare_dot_net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Frank Bonnet on 18 Sep 2009 05:30 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-09-18 09:34 +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote: > >> I'm trying to change a local user passwd as root and I get this error >> message ... which seems a bit unreal to me ... >> >> >> passwd: Permission denied >> passwd: password unchanged > > What does "lsattr /etc/passwd /etc/shadow" print? this ... how it has been changed ? this is a fresh install does this mean another admin has changed the default attr ? lsattr /etc/passwd /etc/shadow ------------------- /etc/passwd ------------------- /etc/shadow > > Sven > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Frank Bonnet on 18 Sep 2009 05:40 Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello Frank, > > what gives > ls -l /etc/passwd > lsattr /etc/passwd well I am logged as root which is supposed in a UNIX world to have access to all files of the local filesystem without access right checking huh ? ls -l /etc/passwd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1358 2009-09-18 09:21 /etc/passwd lsattr /etc/passwd ------------------- /etc/passwd > > ? > > Jerome > > Frank Bonnet wrote: >> Hello >> >> I'm trying to change a local user passwd as root and I get this error >> message ... which seems a bit unreal to me ... >> >> >> passwd: Permission denied >> passwd: password unchanged >> >> >> The machine is running Lenny 64 bits >> >> Thank you >> >> > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
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