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- From: wto@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (William T. O Connell)
- Subject: Re: pwd command missing in L
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.231947.4695@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- Organization: PC peripheral operational services group
- References: <726010584.AA29502@remote.halcyon.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 23:19:47 GMT
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- In article <726010584.AA29502@remote.halcyon.com> Randy.Edwards@f60.n128.z1.fidonet.org (Randy Edwards) writes:
- >To: wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong)
- > On 12-29-92 Edmund Wong wrote to All...
- >
- > EW> HELP!.. I've been searching my system for the 'pwd' command,
- >[...]
- > EW> Everytime I log on as a non-root user, I get the following:-
- > EW> Welcome to Linux SLS ....
- > EW> ....etc
- > EW> Your password will expire in 0 days.
- > EW> No mail.
- > EW> shell-init: Permission denied
- > EW> pwd: Permission denied
- > EW> : Permission denied
- > EW> #
- >
- > pwd is the command for Print Working Directory. I think what you
- >want (but what do I know, I'm a unix-newbie :-) is "passwd".
- >
- > Also, FWIW, you might want to look around for a file called
- >"perms.sh" which is a shell script which purports to fix the permission
- >
- >problems in the SLS release.
- >.
- >Randy
-
- I believe your actual problem is that somewhere in the directory
- path to your login directory, you permissions on one or more of your
- directorys is wrong. try logging in as root, and check them.
-
- - Bill O'Connell wto@ihlpx.att.com
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