Frank Bonnet <f.bon...@esiee.fr> wrote:
> 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
Suspect you've lost the setuid permission bit on /usr/bin/passwd:
ls -l /usr/bin/passwd
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 34392 2009-05-22 16:03 /usr/bin/passwd
If you don't see an 's' in the fourth character position then that's
the problem, and you can fix it with these commands run as root:
chown root:root /usr/bin/passwd
chmod u=rwx,go=rx,u+s /usr/bin/passwd # 4755 if you insist
Chris
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