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- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Not enough permissions for root?
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!alliant!merk!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 03:33:59 GMT
- Reply-To: rmkhome!rmk@merk.com (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9301212234.02@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <1993Jan11.171350.7446@netcom.com> <9301191709.25@phzzzt.uucp>
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- In article <9301191709.25@phzzzt.uucp> mfaurot@phzzzt.uucp (Michael Faurot) writes:
- >messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) writes:
- >:
- >: I may be confused, but shouldn't 'root' be able to read and see
- >: ALL files on the system (outside of crypted ones, of course)?
- >: Well, when I go into the directory /usr/man/COHERENT my ls
- >: aborts and says I don't have permissions as root to see any
- >: files. When I execute ls from above (usr/man) into that
- >: directory, it works just fine. Anyone has an explanation for
- >: that? (Yes, I know user bin will work fine).
- >
- >What's happening is that when you type "ls" from within the directory
- >/usr/man/COHERENT the man page file "ls" is being found before the
- >binary /bin/ls. If you type /bin/ls from within there this will work
- >instead. The same thing will happen if you attempt to change root's
- >password when logged to the /etc directory and try to run the "passwd"
- >program.
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- I just did a cd /usr/man/COHERENT, and then an ls, and it worked.
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- Rick Kelly rmkhome!rmk@merk.com merk!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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