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Root unable to change passwords for endusers!!
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| mac8893 2005-12-15, 7:49 am |
| Hi,
I got a serious problem.. Yesterday, our AIX 4.3 server was reset by
accident (hard reset!).. We were able to bring it back up without to
much problems. Since the reboot no one is able to change their
passwords to include root.
receiving the following message:
ksh: passwd: 0403-006 Execute permission denied.
This morning I performed a normal graceful shutdown and reboot of the
system. No errors were encountered.
Here is the ls -arlt of the /usr/bin:
<root@mdaw3> ls -alrt *pass*
-r-xr-sr-x 1 root security 13938 Feb 24 1994 yppasswd.orig
-r-sr-xr-x 1 root system 12204 Jul 01 1999 rpasswd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 bin bin 30 Dec 09 2001 passwd_import ->
/usr/lpp/dce/bin/passwd_import
lrwxrwxrwx 1 bin bin 30 Dec 09 2001 passwd_export ->
/usr/lpp/dce/bin/passwd_export
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root bin 17018 Sep 27 2002 passwd.aix
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root system 264 Oct 04 2002 awipasswd
-r-sr-xr-x 1 root security 15594 Oct 30 2002 yppasswd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 108295 May 23 2003 passwd
Is there any idea why root wouldn't be able to perform this function??
To the best of my knowledge all other functions are working properly
like lsvg, more, cat, top.
Also before this issue happened but right after the reboot from
yesterday. The passwd command was erroring out stating that wpasswd
wasn't working. I don't see why that command even matters.
Thanks in Advance,
Jeff McGill
SysAdmin
"A mind once stretched, has limitless possibilities"
-Author Unknown
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| base60 2005-12-15, 8:50 pm |
| mac8893 wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I got a serious problem.. Yesterday, our AIX 4.3 server was reset by
> accident (hard reset!).. We were able to bring it back up without to
> much problems. Since the reboot no one is able to change their
> passwords to include root.
The permissions on your passwd binary are incorrect.
You probably want: -r-sr-xr-x
You might want to take a look to see if that is the real passwd
binary.
>
>
> receiving the following message:
>
>
> ksh: passwd: 0403-006 Execute permission denied.
>
>
> This morning I performed a normal graceful shutdown and reboot of the
> system. No errors were encountered.
>
>
> Here is the ls -arlt of the /usr/bin:
>
>
> <root@mdaw3> ls -alrt *pass*
> -r-xr-sr-x 1 root security 13938 Feb 24 1994 yppasswd.orig
> -r-sr-xr-x 1 root system 12204 Jul 01 1999 rpasswd
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 bin bin 30 Dec 09 2001 passwd_import ->
> /usr/lpp/dce/bin/passwd_import
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 bin bin 30 Dec 09 2001 passwd_export ->
> /usr/lpp/dce/bin/passwd_export
> -rwsr-xr-x 1 root bin 17018 Sep 27 2002 passwd.aix
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root system 264 Oct 04 2002 awipasswd
> -r-sr-xr-x 1 root security 15594 Oct 30 2002 yppasswd
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 108295 May 23 2003 passwd
>
>
> Is there any idea why root wouldn't be able to perform this function??
> To the best of my knowledge all other functions are working properly
> like lsvg, more, cat, top.
>
>
> Also before this issue happened but right after the reboot from
> yesterday. The passwd command was erroring out stating that wpasswd
> wasn't working. I don't see why that command even matters.
>
>
> Thanks in Advance,
>
>
> Jeff McGill
> SysAdmin
>
>
> "A mind once stretched, has limitless possibilities"
> -Author Unknown
>
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