On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 08:36:07PM +0100, bert hubert wrote:
> You probably have shadow passwords. These cannot be read by any user but
> root. This means that checkpassword needs to be 'set user id root', suid
> root for short. Try this:
>
> chown root:root /bin/checkpassword
> chmod +s /bin/checkpassword
DO NOT DO THIS. Sorry. Braino on my part. checkpassword needs to be invoked
by root, it should not be suid.
Regards,
bert hubert.
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