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Old 01-13-2011
Tools passwd command validation
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Actually the normal user as the permission of executing the passwd command due to suid program... eg consider the two users (normal user) as tom & jerry! when tom executes command as " passwd tom" no issue here...
In the same way when the same user tom uses the command as "passwd jerry" it says permission denied ???? how does this validation occursSmilie ...
Last edited by sriniv666; 01-13-2011 at 07:18 AM.. Reason: descriptive
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Old 01-13-2011
Only users with super user id (0) can change other users' password. This can also be accomplished by implementing Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).

HTH
Last edited by bluescreen; 01-13-2011 at 10:50 AM.. Reason: added RBAC suggestion
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