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- From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan)
- Subject: Re: Two queries
- References: <1992Dec16.123126.24182@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Organization: Vince and Suzie's Underpowered PC
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:02:20 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.200220.1470@victrola.sea.wa.us>
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- tjrc1@cus.cam.ac.uk (T.J.R. Cutts) writes:
- >2) To keep data files separate from others, last week I moved /usr/users onto a
- >separate partition from the rest of the /usr tree. Now when I try to log in as
- >anybody other than root, most commands work, after giving huge numbers of
- >'Permission denied' errors. User and group ownership of the home directories
- >are correct, and as far as I can see from logging in as a user (amongst the
- >'Permission denied's'!) I have the correct read/write/execute permissions in
- >directories such as /bin and /usr/bin. What's going on?
-
- make sure you have read privs all the way down the tree to the home directory.
- In other words, if you have /u/username, you need to make sure that you have
- read privs to /u.
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- ---------- Vince Skahan --------- vince@victrola.sea.wa.us ----------
- "Listen buddy, if I could tell you in a minute what I did, it wouldn't be
- worth the Nobel Prize" - Richard Feynman
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