execution of passwd command in users profile

[Rochelle Menezes]

Hi,

On my HP-UX machine details of machine
"HP-UX ELX-LPU-IVM1 B.11.23 U ia64 0484773515 unlimited-user license"

I have my user id (username :test1) created. Now once I login I want to run the '$passwd' command and change my password but it say "sh: passwd: Execute permission denied."

On my other system it works. How do I solve this.

Ryan

[Pete Randall]

What are the permissions and ownership for /usr/bin/passwd?

And for that matter, check that you're actually getting the /usr/bin/passwd: whence passwd.


Pete

[Dennis Handly]

Why would you ever want this in your .profile?
It seems doing it manually would be best. Possibly echoing a reminder at the end of .profile.

[Bill Hassell]

> I want to run the '$passwd' command

Did you really mean to say $passwd? In standard shells, $passwd will not run the passwd command. Instead, it will see $passwd as a variable name and replace $passwd with the current contents of the passwd variable (whatever that might be).

If you want to run any command from .profile (or any script), simply use the command's name, or better yet, specify the full pathanme as in:

/usr/bin/passwd

[Rochelle Menezes]

Hi Guys,

Thanks.. Its done..

I have given this permissions yesterday night and it worked.

output atached.

Many Thanks Guys..don't know how it work but it works.

Cheers
Ryan