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- From: branagh@cs.mcgill.ca (Wayne BRANAGH)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Not enough permissions for root?
- Message-ID: <C1DyBy.GMq@cs.mcgill.ca>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 01:19:09 GMT
- References: <1993Jan11.171350.7446@netcom.com> <9301191709.25@phzzzt.uucp> <9301212234.02@rmkhome.UUCP>
- Sender: news@cs.mcgill.ca (Netnews Administrator)
- Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada
- Lines: 32
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- In article <9301212234.02@rmkhome.UUCP> rmkhome!rmk@merk.com (Rick Kelly) writes:
- >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.
- >
- >
- >I just did a cd /usr/man/COHERENT, and then an ls, and it worked.
- >
- The problem only seems to happen if you have ksh loaded as a second
- shell. If you boot with sh or ksh there's no problem. Try again
- after loading a second ksh. I have the same problem on my
- system (as do others who have tried it).
-
- Cheers,
-
- Wayne
- branagh@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca
- branagh@omc.lan.mcgill.ca
-