Urgent: /bin/passwd: Permission denied

From: Lars Hecking (lhecking@nmrc.ucc.ie)
Date: Tue Dec 02 2003 - 10:14:56 EST

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# whoami
root
# passwd user
New Password:
Re-enter new Password:
Permission denied
#

 What could be the problem? I tried to truss the process, but couldn't
 spot anything useful?

 This is on our NIS server, running Solaris 9 8/03.
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