User Login Password Change not Applying (7.04)

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Mike White wrote:

> > Try: sudo rm -R /home/student9

> Rm: cannot remove directory '/home/student9': Permission denied

Are you sure that's exactly what you did?  Permissions shouldn't be a
problem for root (which rm will run as when you use sudo).  You can confirm
that sudo is doing this by running:

gavinmc at boing:~$ sudo whoami
[sudo] password for gavinmc:
root
gavinmc at boing:~$ sudo id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)

Maybe also check if the partition is mounted read-write.  Type the command 
	mount

and you should see lines like:

	/dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
	/dev/sda3 on /home type ext3 (rw)

the "rw" means read-write.  You need to make sure / and /home (if you have
one) are "rw" not "ro".

Gavin