From: Nathan Bardsley (nbardsley@leadfusion.com)
Date: Wed Oct 27 2004 - 13:22:13 EDT
When root tries to change a user's password the only result is
"Permission denied"
root@host ~ # passwd user
New Password:
Re-enter new Password:
Permission denied
There are a number of reports of similar problems that talk about NIS
and/or LDAP, neither of which I'm using.
The system is patched up to current, including 112960-20.
The system is a standalone box, Solaris 9.
I've trussed the command:
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ioctl(3, TCSETAW, 0xFFBFB854) = 0
write(2, "\n", 1) = 1
sigaction(SIGINT, 0xFFBFB730, 0xFFBFB7B0) = 0
close(3) = 0
creat("/etc/.pwd.lock", 0600) Err#13 EACCES
munmap(0xFEF20000, 5213) = 0
munmap(0xFEF32000, 2222) = 0
munmap(0xFEF00000, 12089) = 0
munmap(0xFEF14000, 2928) = 0
munmap(0xFEED0000, 5322) = 0
munmap(0xFEEE2000, 2103) = 0
munmap(0xFEEB0000, 4962) = 0
munmap(0xFEEC2000, 2371) = 0
munmap(0xFEE90000, 5898) = 0
munmap(0xFEEA2000, 3449) = 0
Permission deniedwrite(2, " P e r m i s s i o n d".., 17) = 17
write(2, "\n", 1) = 1
_exit(1)
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root can create and remove the file "/etc/.pwd.lock", but the passwd
command can't.
Any ideas? And of course, I'll provide a summary once it's working.
Thanks,
--Nathan
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