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- From: Randy.Edwards@f60.n128.z1.fidonet.org (Randy Edwards)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: pwd command missing in L
- Message-ID: <726010584.AA29502@remote.halcyon.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 10:53:00 -0800
- Sender: UUCP@remote.halcyon.com
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- To: wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong)
- On 12-29-92 Edmund Wong wrote to All...
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- EW> HELP!.. I've been searching my system for the 'pwd' command,
- [...]
- EW> Everytime I log on as a non-root user, I get the following:-
- EW> Welcome to Linux SLS ....
- EW> ....etc
- EW> Your password will expire in 0 days.
- EW> No mail.
- EW> shell-init: Permission denied
- EW> pwd: Permission denied
- EW> : Permission denied
- EW> #
-
- pwd is the command for Print Working Directory. I think what you
- want (but what do I know, I'm a unix-newbie :-) is "passwd".
-
- Also, FWIW, you might want to look around for a file called
- "perms.sh" which is a shell script which purports to fix the permission
-
- problems in the SLS release.
- .
- Randy
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