Receive message: "audswitch: Not owner" when trying to change password

[Dani Seely]

An attempt to change a non-privileged users' password returns the message: "audswitch: Not owner". Any suggestion on what to check?

[Robert-Jan Goossens · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Could you check the permissions of,

# ll /usr/bin/login
# ll /usr/bin/passwd

shoud be -r-sr-xr-x root bin for both.

HTH,
Robert-Jan

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi,

Check the perms on the login & passwd binaries. They must be SUID & root:bin owned

-r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin /usr/bin/login
-r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin /usr/bin/passwd

HTH,
Jeff

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

Check these permission and reset if wrong,

Change the 'login' and 'passwd' permissions:
-r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin /usr/bin/login
-r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin /usr/bin/passwd

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Dani Seely]

Thanks! The problem was the SUID bit was not set on /usr/bin/passwd ... it was set to:
-r-xr-xr-x root:bin

and should have been:

-r-sr-xr-x root:bin

Thank you!