Re: passwd: Permission denied ?

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

Well after rebooting the machine it seems the / partition has a problem
fsck cannot correct the problem too

It might be a hardware problem ... (sigh !)



Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> 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