root is denied the ability to change permissions?

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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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