passwd

[Mark]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elvedin" <mnsan11 at earthlink.net>
To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
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