ETC PASSWD PERMISSION DENIED
16.04 - usermod: cannot lock /etc/passwd - Ask Ubuntu
Viewed 35k times. 5. I get this massage: usermod: Permission denied. usermod: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later after trying to add myself to audio group by: usermod -a -G audio USERNAME. I would be grateful for any help. 16.04.
Permission denied after changing password (password is correct)
If every new user can login, but after password change, login shows "Permission Denied", then check what what exacctly is changing, in /etc/passwd & /etc/shadow. Create a new account, take backups of /etc/passwd & /etc/shadow, login, change passwd, logout, compare the files to see what has changed, and interpret the Differences.
Docker error: 'useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd' - Stack Overflow
You need to be root to modify /etc/passwd. You can run a command as root inside an existing container by using the -u option to docker exec. Compare this: $ docker exec flutter useradd testuser useradd: Permission denied. useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later. $ To this: $ docker exec -u root flutter useradd testuser $
Permission denied appending passwd and shadow files to log files
1 Answer Sorted by: 1 The command: /etc/passwd >> file.log attempts to execute the /etc/passwd file, but /etc/passwd is not an executable, hence the permission denied error. To redirect the contents of the file, you can use cat: cat /etc/passwd >> file.log
[Solved] useradd: Permission denied.useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd ...
This could be caused by several reasons. The currently logged in user OR the bash script is not running as root. the /etc/passwd is indeed "locked" to prevent issues when creating users at the same time. You can check if you're running as root by typing "whoami" command. To see if the /etc/passwd is "locked" run this command. If the command ...
passwd: permission denied error when trying to update a user's password
passwd: permission denied error when trying to update a user's password Linux - Newbie This Linux forum is for members that are new to Linux. Just starting out and have a question? If it is not in the man pages or the how-to's this is the place! Notices Welcome to LinuxQuestions.org, a friendly and active Linux Community.
Permission denied as root for /etc/passwd - LinuxQuestions.org
Permission denied as root for /etc/passwd Linux - Newbie This Linux forum is for members that are new to Linux. Just starting out and have a question? If it is not in the man pages or the how-to's this is the place! Notices Welcome to LinuxQuestions.org, a friendly and active Linux Community. You are currently viewing LQ as a guest.
File permissions of the /etc/shadow password file - Linux Audit
Permissions of /etc/passwd. While it is fine that all users can read this file, they should not be able to change fields. Otherwise it could disrupt file permissions and authorizations. It would be fairly easy to take over the root account for example. [[email protected] ~]# ls -l /etc/passwd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1046 Oct 27 16:05 /etc/passwd.
Why do I get an error when I try to postmap sasl password file with ...
After trying again postmap sasl_passwd, sasl_passwd.db is created and looks OK. The postmap command calls a service running as the postfix user. If you want your map to be created in /etc/postfix a low-impact fix is to only change the group ownership of the directory. This solves the "ownership warning" and later issues.
passwd - permission denied / Newbie Corner / Arch Linux Forums
I believe it is required (at least it's on by default). You can check with ls -l, the permissions should say rws (with a s for setuid) for root (owner of the file): -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 25016 2009-08-01 12:23 /usr/bin/passwd. For lack of better words: chair, never, toothbrush, really. Ohw, and fish! Offline.
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