passwd problem

[Anthony J. Gabrielson]

Well, I'm not sure what happened to the permissions - but chmod 4755
brought it back to what you posted and resolved the problem.

Thanks,
Anthony

On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Jerry Feldman wrote:

> Edit the password file (/etc/passwd) and empty the password field. It 
> should have an x in it. Then log in as that user and try.
> Also check permissions and ownership of /usr/bin/passwd:
> -rwsr-xr-x   1 root     shadow      27920 Mar 11 05:50 /usr/bin/passwd 

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