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- From: karlton@fudge.asd.sgi.com (Phil Karlton)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: unable to run xwsh
- Message-ID: <primeuc@fido.asd.sgi.com>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 17:42:53 GMT
- References: <BuKsAH.MD1@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
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- In article <BuKsAH.MD1@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, maejohns@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Mark E. Johnson) writes:
- when i type "xwsh" at the prompt, I get the reply:
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- xwsh: No permission match: can't start command
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- an ls -l /usr/sbin/xwsh produces :
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- -rwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 266352 Dec 4 1991 /usr/sbin/xwsh*
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- Which doesn't seem to be a problem...
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- Any ideas?
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- xwsh should be setuid root. I wonder how it lost its permissions. To fix
- the problem as root
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- chmod u+s /usr/sbin/xwsh
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- PK
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