I think you should truss as a root user to change the password for joe user.
# truss passwd joe On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Michael Schuster <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know whether truss on a suid binary (which I seem to remember > passwd being) will work ... > > > On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Mohamed Khalfella <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > You could try > > > > $ truss passwd joe > > > > to get what system call fails for you. > > > > > > On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Jozsef Brogyanyi <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi > > > > > > I can not change my passwd as a user and as root too. On older setup > this > > > function is worked. Which is the trick in this case? Thanks. > > > > > > joe@hipster:/export/home/joe$ passwd > > > passwd: Changing password for joe > > > Enter existing login password: > > > Permission denied > > > _______________________________________________ > > > openindiana-discuss mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > BR, > > Mohamed A. Khalfella > > _______________________________________________ > > openindiana-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > > > > -- > Michael Schuster > http://recursiveramblings.wordpress.com/ > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > -- BR, Mohamed A. Khalfella _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
