Re: passwd: Permission denied ?

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

Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> Hello Frank,
>
> what gives
> ls -l /etc/passwd
> lsattr /etc/passwd

well I am logged as root which is supposed in a UNIX world
to have access to all files of the local filesystem without
access right checking  huh ?


ls -l /etc/passwd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1358 2009-09-18 09:21 /etc/passwd


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

> ?
>
> Jerome
>
> Frank Bonnet wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> > The machine is running Lenny 64 bits
> >
> > Thank you