Cypherpunk@nyc.rr.com wrote:
> Sam <s.wun@thales-is.com.hk> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>
>
> Hi! Excitement!
>
>
>> I don't know why I got the following error:
>>
>> root@unixser [12:14pm] [/usr/bin]# useradd -u 513 -g thales -m -d
>> /export/home/samwun samw
>> 64 blocks
>> root@unixser [12:14pm] [/usr/bin]# passwd samw
>> New Password:
>> Permission denied
>>
>> Any idea?
>
>
> Look at the end of this output:
>
> truss -aef passwd samw
>
> Report back as to what it was, please.

beginning of the output is:

root@unixser ^[[1m[1:47pm]^[[m^O [~]# truss -aef passwd samwun^M^M
6256: *** SGID: rgid/egid/sgid = 1 / 3 / 3 ***^M
6256: execve("/usr/bin/passwd", 0x08047DC4, 0x08047DD0) argc = 2^M
6256: argv: passwd samwun^M
6256: envp: HOME=/^M
6256:
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/bin/X11^M
6256: LOGNAME=root HZ= TZ=Hongkong TERM=vt100 SHELL=/usr/bin/tcsh^M
6256: HOSTTYPE=i86pc VENDOR=sun OSTYPE=solaris MACHTYPE=i386^M
6256: SHLVL=2 PWD=/ USER=root GROUP=other HOST=unixser^M
6256: REMOTEHOST=192.168.1.1 EDITOR=vi BLOCKSIZE=1k^M
6256: resolvepath("/usr/bin/passwd", "/usr/bin/passwd", 1023) = 15^M
6256: sysconfig(_CONFIG_PAGESIZE) = 4096^M
6256: resolvepath("/usr/lib/ld.so.1", "/usr/lib/ld.so.1", 1023) = 16^M
6256: xstat(2, "/usr/bin/passwd", 0x08047C1C) = 0^M
6256: open("/var/ld/ld.config", O_RDONLY) = 3^M
6256: fxstat(2, 3, 0x08047B3C) = 0^M
6256: mmap(0x00000000, 96, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 3, 0) = 0xDDB80000^M
6256: close(3) = 0^M
6256: open("/usr/lib/passwdutil.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3^M
6256: fxstat(2, 3, 0x08047684) = 0^M
6256: mmap(0x00000000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) =
0xDDB70000^M
6256: mmap(0x00000000, 114688, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0)
= 0xDDB50000^M
6256: mmap(0xDDB6B000, 2380, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 45056) = 0xDDB6B000^M
6256: munmap(0xDDB5B000, 65536) = 0^M
6256: resolvepath("/usr/lib/passwdutil.so.1",
"/usr/lib/passwdutil.so.1", 1023) = 24^M
6256: memcntl(0xDDB50000, 7304, MC_ADVISE, MADV_WILLNEED, 0, 0) = 0^M
6256: close(3) = 0^M
6256: open("/usr/lib/libbsm.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3^M
6256: fxstat(2, 3, 0x08047684) = 0^M
6256: mmap(0xDDB70000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0) = 0xDDB70000^M
6256: mmap(0x00000000, 172032, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0)
= 0xDDB20000^M
6256: mmap(0xDDB46000, 11596, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 90112) = 0xDDB46000^M
6256: mmap(0xDDB49000, 3540, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANON, -1, 0) = 0xDDB49000^M
6256: munmap(0xDDB36000, 65536) = 0^M
6256: resolvepath("/usr/lib/libbsm.so.1", "/usr/lib/libbsm.so.1",
1023) = 20^M
6256: memcntl(0xDDB20000, 19996, MC_ADVISE, MADV_WILLNEED, 0, 0) = 0^M
6256: close(3) = 0^M
6256: open("/usr/lib/libpam.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3^M
6256: fxstat(2, 3, 0x08047684) = 0^M
6256: mmap(0xDDB70000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0) = 0xDDB70000^M
6256: mmap(0x00000000, 98304, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0)
= 0xDDB00000^M
6256: mmap(0xDDB16000, 5316, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 24576) = 0xDDB16000^M
6256: munmap(0xDDB06000, 65536) = 0^M
6256: mmap(0x00000000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANON, -1, 0) = 0xDDAF0000^M
6256: resolvepath("/usr/lib/libpam.so.1", "/usr/lib/libpam.so.1",
1023) = 20^M
6256: memcntl(0xDDB00000, 4896, MC_ADVISE, MADV_WILLNEED, 0, 0) = 0^M
6256: close(3) = 0^M
6256: open("/usr/lib/libnsl.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3^M
6256: fxstat(2, 3, 0x08047684) = 0^M
6256: mmap(0xDDB70000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0) = 0xDDB70000^M
6256: mmap(0x00000000, 679936, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0)
= 0xDDA40000^M

Thanks
sam