Re: passwd: Permission denied ?

[Jerome BENOIT <jgmbenoit@mailsnare.net>]

Frank Bonnet wrote:
> 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 ?

may be, but you issue is, as you said, unreal.

have you strace passwd to have a better idea of what is going on ?

Jerome 

> 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

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Jerome BENOIT
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