[OpenIndiana-discuss] passwd changing trouble

[Mohamed Khalfella]

I think you should truss as a root user to change the password for joe user.

# truss passwd joe


On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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