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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: su / passwd problem on 2.1
Date: 17 Apr 1996 21:48:43 GMT
Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden
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jmurray@vt.edu (John Murray) writes:
>I am having a problem with the passwd command.  When I log in to X an do a
>passwd it works, But if I su to another(non-root) user then run the passwd
>program the following error is shown:
>
>passwd: Permission denied

You're suffering from some sort of misconfiguration.  Check all
permissions, and check ``which passwd'' is about to be invoked.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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