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From: dcripe@mcdurb.Urbana.Gould.COM
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: 'passwd' problems
Message-ID: <45500004@mcdurb>
Date: 1 Feb 89 15:42:00 GMT
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Nf-From: mcdurb.Urbana.Gould.COM!dcripe    Feb  1 09:42:00 1989


Looks like you lost the setuid bit on /etc/passwd when you copied it.
/etc/passwd must be setuid so that it can write to the password file.
There are a number of other programs that must be setuid, and you may
have lost the bit on these, also.