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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: unable to run xwsh
- Message-ID: <prk2idk@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 18:29:56 GMT
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- In <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
- |
- | However, when I chhange to root, it will work fine.
- |
- | 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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- It should be setuid root (chmod 4755 /usr/sbin/xwsh). It needs to
- be setuid root at startup to change the /etc/*tmp files and similar
- bookkeeping.
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