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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!tk2x+ From: Timothy J Kniveton <tim+@CMU.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: secure dist/passwd Date: Sat, 15 Jan 1994 14:59:02 -0500 Organization: Freshman, CIT general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 6 Message-ID: <QhC4g6O00VBNEFf0gK@andrew.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: po5.andrew.cmu.edu i installed the secure distribution on a FreeBSD system i have been running for a few months. everything seems to be working ok, except no users except myself and root (i think people in the root group) can run passwd. since the permissions of passwd allow read + execute for anyone, i suspect that the problem lies in one of the DES routines that was added with the secure distribution. help?