Re: passwd

[Elvedin]

Mark wrote:

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elvedin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 5:06 AM
Subject: passwd

 

644 should be the proper permission on /etc/pwd.db. And is
/usr/bin/passwd still setuid root?
     

drwxr-xr-x  17 root  wheel  -    2048 Mar 21 21:57 etc
-rwxr--r--  1 root  wheel  - 40960 Mar 21 21:57 pwd.db
-rwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  - 32824 Oct 27 09:31 passwd
I didn't change passwd or anything related to it at all ...
   

Well, something changed alright. As I expected, your passwd no longer seems
to be setuid root! Like so:
-r-sr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  32504 Oct  9  2002 /usr/bin/passwd

If it is not setuid root, regular users can, obviously, no longer can change
their own passwords. Change it back:
chmod u+s /usr/bin/passwd

That will do it. It might be of interest, though, to figure out why this
change occured.
- Mark

 

That resolved it, thank you very much. I really have no clue why this 
came up since I haven't changed any permissions at all in /usr/bin or 
anything passwd related before this. If only my setuid logs were set to 
keep logs from the beginning instead of for today and yesterday...
--
Elvedin T.

sysadmin.ods.org <http://sysadmin.ods.org>

ODS.org <http://www.ods.org>

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