Frank Bonnet wrote:
Jerome BENOIT wrote:
Hello Frank,
what gives
ls -l /etc/passwd
lsattr /etc/passwd
well I am logged as root which is supposed in a UNIX world
to have access to all files of the local filesystem without
access right checking huh ?
may be, but you issue is, as you said, unreal.
have you strace passwd to have a better idea of what is going on ?
Jerome
ls -l /etc/passwd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1358 2009-09-18 09:21 /etc/passwd
lsattr /etc/passwd
------------------- /etc/passwd
?
Jerome
Frank Bonnet wrote:
Hello
I'm trying to change a local user passwd as root and I get this error
message ... which seems a bit unreal to me ...
passwd: Permission denied
passwd: password unchanged
The machine is running Lenny 64 bits
Thank you
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