Re: passwd: Permission denied ?

[Frank Bonnet <f.bonnet@esiee.fr>]

Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2009-09-18 09:34 +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to change a local user passwd as root and I get this error
> > message ... which seems a bit unreal to me ...
> >
> >
> > passwd: Permission denied
> > passwd: password unchanged
>
> What does "lsattr /etc/passwd /etc/shadow" print?

this ... how it has been changed ? this is a fresh install
does this mean another admin has changed the default attr ?


lsattr /etc/passwd /etc/shadow
------------------- /etc/passwd
------------------- /etc/shadow

> Sven