Re: passwd: Permission denied ?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2009-09-18 02:34, 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

Dumb question: how are you trying to change the password?

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