From: Martin Junius (mj@dfv.rwth-aachen.de)
Date: 07/08/92 

From: mj@dfv.rwth-aachen.de (Martin Junius)
Subject: Re: non-root user unable to change passwd (was Re: Linux v0.96 rootimage uploaded)
Date: 8 Jul 1992 08:47:59 GMT

jliddle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Jean Liddle) writes:

>/etc/passwd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root
>/bin/passwd -rwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin

Your /bin/passwd must be setuid root to change the password:

    chown root /bin/passwd
    chmod u+s /bin/passwd

Martin 

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