From: jwinstea@jarthur.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) Subject: Re: non-root user unable to change passwd (was Re: Linux v0.96 rootimage uploaded) Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1992 00:00:10 GMT
In article <1992Jul06.173817.6991@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> jliddle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Jean Liddle) writes:
>
>I did run into a problem which I hope someone can help me out with. It must
>be a FAQ, but I can't find an answere in any of the standard FAQ files.
>
>I just added a new user "jliddle" manually, as described in the FAQ:
> - edit /etc/passwd
> - create new home directory (/home/jliddle)
> - chown jliddle /home/jliddle
> - chgrp ## /home/jliddle
>
>I can login as jliddle just fine, but when I run passwd and enter the new
>password twice (when prompted) I get the message "unable to open passwd
>file".
>
>my permissions are as follows:
>
>/etc/passwd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root
>/bin/passwd -rwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin
>
>which is unchaged from installation from the 0.96 root diskette.
This is a result of the sometimes goofy file permissions on the root
disk - do a chown root:root /bin/passwd and you should be okay. Sigh.
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