From: Oren Kastner (oren@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu)
Date: 07/07/92 

From: oren@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Oren Kastner)
Subject: Re: non-root user unable to change passwd (was Re: Linux v0.96 rootimage uploaded)
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1992 06:24:04 GMT

In article <1992Jul06.173817.6991@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> jliddle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Jean Liddle) writes:

[stuff deleted]
>
>my permissions are as follows:
>
>/etc/passwd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root
>/bin/passwd -rwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin
>

chown root:bin /bin/passwd
chmod 4555 /bin/passwd

That should do it :-)

G'luck,
        Oren. 

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