[OpenIndiana-discuss] passwd changing trouble

Michael Schuster michaelsprivate at gmail.com
Fri Aug 1 10:07:45 UTC 2014


I don't know whether truss on a suid binary (which I seem to remember
passwd being) will work ...


On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Mohamed Khalfella <khalfella at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> You could try
>
> $ truss passwd joe
>
> to get what system call fails for you.
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Jozsef Brogyanyi <brogyi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I can not change my passwd as a user and as root too. On older setup this
> > function is worked. Which is the trick in this case? Thanks.
> >
> > joe at hipster:/export/home/joe$ passwd
> > passwd: Changing password for joe
> > Enter existing login password:
> > Permission denied
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> Mohamed A. Khalfella
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