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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!uwvax!newssinet!news.u-tokyo.ac.jp!wnoc-tyo-news!news.iij.ad.jp!news.CET.CO.JP!usenet From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: passwd Date: 4 May 1995 07:44:56 GMT Organization: CATENA Enterprise Technologies Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3oa0lp$ejq@diablo.cet.co.jp> References: <3o9nnc$17g@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: a06m.cet.co.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) eric@cse.ucsc.edu (Eric Rosen) wrote: >Why can I not figure out how to allow non-root users to change >their password with the password command? > > passwd: updating passwd database > passwd: password changed elsewhere. no changes made > >Every 2.0 binary install I do (no Kerberos) does this (out-of-the-box). >I don't see this problem mentioned in the patch-list, or in the FAQ, or >even in the newsgroup. > >What's the secret? What needs configuring? > >--Eric > BSDI does have a patch for this. Look more carefully at the patch-list.