root is denied the ability to change permissions?
u235sentinel
u235sentinel at comcast.net
Fri Dec 26 19:55:00 UTC 2003
Presuming everyone is correct AND fedora is RedHat Linux of a sort, PAM
is the authentication tool used to manage things like passwords or user
creation.
Quick blurb on what is PAM
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Secure-Programs-HOWTO/pam.html
If the partition he's working on is vfat / NTFS then that would clearly
explain it. I haven't seen a response regarding this yet.
>That or perhaps PAM problems?
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>>I wonder if any files/directories anywhere can be changed (say in /tmp
>>for example).
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>PAM? What are you talking about?
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>Dennis
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