From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: khollan <khollan@daktronics.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: BusyBox passwd requires root privileges
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:53:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46B395B5.1040009@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11990563.post@talk.nabble.com>
khollan wrote:
> I log on as a user and I want to use passwd to change that users password but
> it gives me the
> passwd: applet requires root privileges!
> I can login as root and change all user passwords, but I want individual
> owners to be able to update their passwords. Any ideas?
passwd needs to be setuid root.
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-03 20:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-03 20:49 BusyBox passwd requires root privileges khollan
2007-08-03 20:53 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2007-08-03 21:39 ` khollan
2007-08-03 21:55 ` Scott Wood
2007-08-07 18:39 ` khollan
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