On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 10:36:16PM -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: > On 2/23/07, Andy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 04:35:18PM -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: > >> CHROOT> passwd userx > >> passwd: You may not view or modify password information for userx. > > > >Er, you ARE doing that as root, right? > > Yes :) The only special thing is that I'm inside a chroot. The "host" > is a Fedora C5 server running Linux 2.6.16. And that I dist-upgraded from > sarge to etch.
Sorry, had to ask :) That is very odd. Could you strace the passwd command inside the chroot and post a link to the results? (-o to send output to a file) Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting Encrypted mail welcome - keyid 0x604DE5DB
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