vipw: pw_tmp(): Operation not permitted

[Robert Watson]

On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Melvyn Sopacua wrote:

> On Tuesday 02 March 2004 14:08, Erik U. wrote:
> 
> > I get this weird error when i try executing vipw:
> > [root at koti] /home/erik $ vipw
> > vipw: pw_tmp(): Operation not permitted
> > [root at koti] /home/erik $
> 
> Operation not permitted is something else then 'permission denied'.
> Permission denied is related to file and network permissions. Operation
> not permitted relates to operations which are disabled in the kernel or
> by flags on files (see chflags(1)). What's the output of:  sysctl
> kern.securelevel

Sounds like it could well be a file locking problem.  Is rpc.lockd running
on both sides, or alternatively, can the file system be mounted using -L
so as to use local-only locking similar to 4.x? 

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert at fledge.watson.org      Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research