passwd

[Elvedin]

Mark wrote:

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Elvedin" <mnsan11 at earthlink.net>
>To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
>Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 5:06 AM
>Subject: passwd
>
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>>>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
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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.

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