* BusyBox passwd requires root privileges @ 2007-08-03 20:49 khollan 2007-08-03 20:53 ` Scott Wood 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: khollan @ 2007-08-03 20:49 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linuxppc-embedded 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? Thanks khollan -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/BusyBox-passwd-requires-root-privileges-tf4214675.html#a11990563 Sent from the linuxppc-embedded mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: BusyBox passwd requires root privileges 2007-08-03 20:49 BusyBox passwd requires root privileges khollan @ 2007-08-03 20:53 ` Scott Wood 2007-08-03 21:39 ` khollan 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Scott Wood @ 2007-08-03 20:53 UTC (permalink / raw) To: khollan; +Cc: linuxppc-embedded 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: BusyBox passwd requires root privileges 2007-08-03 20:53 ` Scott Wood @ 2007-08-03 21:39 ` khollan 2007-08-03 21:55 ` Scott Wood 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: khollan @ 2007-08-03 21:39 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linuxppc-embedded Scott Wood-2 wrote: > > > passwd needs to be setuid root. > > How do you do that? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/BusyBox-passwd-requires-root-privileges-tf4214675.html#a11991239 Sent from the linuxppc-embedded mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: BusyBox passwd requires root privileges 2007-08-03 21:39 ` khollan @ 2007-08-03 21:55 ` Scott Wood 2007-08-07 18:39 ` khollan 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Scott Wood @ 2007-08-03 21:55 UTC (permalink / raw) To: khollan; +Cc: linuxppc-embedded khollan wrote: > > > Scott Wood-2 wrote: > >> >>passwd needs to be setuid root. >> >> > > How do you do that? Make sure it's owned by root, and chmod 4755 the binary. I'm not sure how to go about telling busybox to drop suid when invoked as something else. It'd probably be better to build two busyboxes, one with all suid commands and the other with the rest. -Scott ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: BusyBox passwd requires root privileges 2007-08-03 21:55 ` Scott Wood @ 2007-08-07 18:39 ` khollan 0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: khollan @ 2007-08-07 18:39 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linuxppc-embedded Scott Wood-2 wrote: > > > Make sure it's owned by root, and chmod 4755 the binary. I'm not sure > how to go about telling busybox to drop suid when invoked as something > else. It'd probably be better to build two busyboxes, one with all suid > commands and the other with the rest. > > -Scott > > I chmod 4755 to the passwd binary and it worked. Before I did that I also added a Busybox.conf file in /etc with this in it... [SUID] passwd = ssx root.root I don't know if I needed that or not but it works now. Thanks -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/BusyBox-passwd-requires-root-privileges-tf4214675.html#a12039968 Sent from the linuxppc-embedded mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
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