[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
LynnOS wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux-vserver:~# pwd
/root
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux-vserver:~# ls -ld /root
drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Jul 3 14:52 /root
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux-vserver:~# su lynn
*shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access
parent directories: Permission denied*
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux-vserver:/root$
This is not a bash problem. You're in a directory which can be read and
searched only by root, and you're su'ing to another user. That user
does not have permission to search the current directory, even to find
`..', so getcwd is going to fail.
You might be able to avoid the need for the getcwd call at startup by
exporting PWD, so the child shell can read it, but there aren't any
guarantees.
Chet
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``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
