On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Paul wrote: > hi everybody, somebody tried to change there by using the command passwd > they entered their old password entered the new password twice as per > usual but came up with this error > > Cannot change ID to root. > > I am using shadow passwords on my system. Any insight would be greatly > apprciated. > Paul > if you need more information please email me.
I think your /usr/bin/passwd might not be setuid. Check if it looks like this: $ ls -l /usr/bin/passwd -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 27992 Sep 27 03:46 /usr/bin/passwd $ ^ | Note the 's' on the fourth position. If there is something else on the fourth position you should do # chmod 4755 /usr/bin/passwd as root and try again. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
