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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