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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newsrelay.netins.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!hookup!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!zorch!zorch.sf-bay.org!scott From: scott@zorch.sf-bay.org (Scott Hazen Mueller) Subject: Re: su / passwd problem on 2.1 Reply-To: scott@zorch.sf-bay.org Sender: usenet@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Charlie Root) Organization: At Home; Salida, CA Message-ID: <Dq4r4L.6s2@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> References: <4ku9o6$mbs@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <4l3ovr$6dq@uriah.heep.sax.de> X-Nntp-Posting-Host: localhost.sf-bay.org Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 22:14:45 GMT Lines: 16 >>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 Yup. passwd tries to open the tty device to read the password (instead of using stdin/stdout/stderr). The original user owns the tty, so when you run under the ID other the other user, passwd does not have permission to access the device. Don't Do That. -- Scott Hazen Mueller | scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG or tandem!zorch!scott