BusyBox passwd requires root privileges
I log on as a user and I want to use passwd to change that users password but it gives me the
passwd: applet requires root privileges!
I can login as root and change all user passwords, but I want individual owners to be able to update their passwords. Any ideas?
Thanks
khollan
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Quoted 4 lines · khollan
I log on as a user and I want to use passwd to change that users password but it gives me the passwd: applet requires root privileges!
I can login as root and change all user passwords, but I want individual owners to be able to update their passwords. Any ideas?
passwd needs to be setuid root.
-Scott
Quoted 5 lines · Scott Wood-2 wrote:
passwd needs to be setuid root.
How do you do that?
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Quoted 4 lines · Scott Wood-2 wrote:
passwd needs to be setuid root.
How do you do that?
Make sure it's owned by root, and chmod 4755 the binary. I'm not sure how to go about telling busybox to drop suid when invoked as something else. It'd probably be better to build two busyboxes, one with all suid commands and the other with the rest.
-Scott
Quoted 10 lines · Scott Wood-2 wrote:
Make sure it's owned by root, and chmod 4755 the binary. I'm not sure how to go about telling busybox to drop suid when invoked as something else. It'd probably be better to build two busyboxes, one with all suid commands and the other with the rest.
-Scott
I chmod 4755 to the passwd binary and it worked. Before I did that I also added a Busybox.conf file in /etc with this in it...
[SUID]
passwd = ssx root.root
I don't know if I needed that or not but it works now. Thanks
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