Hello, I have an error that I can't find. Maybe someone can point me in the right direction. The error is causing a number of problems some would take a long explanation to describe, but one that seems quite easy to describe is this. When I login as myself and do man I get a man page. But then if I su and become root, then do man, I get the error message:
"man: error in loading shared object libraries" "libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: Permission denied" This has something to do with groups. If I make root a member of one certain group, then the problem goes away. In fact, if a user other than root is not a member of this group, that user cannot even login at all. If I try to su to a user who is not in this one group the error message is "su: cannot run /bin/sh: Permission denied". I thought this problem had to do with some permissions or ownership being set wrong on some file or directory, so I went through and compared the permissions and ownerships on this machine with those on a similarly set up machine that doesn't have this problem and couldn't see anything wrong. But one thing that bothers me about this analysis is that I understood that root should have rights whether or not in a certain group. And root doesn't get this error message when logging in or doing su, but does get that first mentioned message when doing man. Another problem that this is causing is that no mail server will run because the user and group that the server tries to do its business under won't work. I'm using Debian Slink, the most recent version, the one that came out around the end of the year, but this problem started way before that. I don't know what I did about the time it started that probably caused this, because it took me a while to realize what was going on. The kernel is 2.0.38. In the lib directory, the link libc.so.6 points to libc-2.0.7.so. This is owned by root, group root, and the permissions are -rw-r--r-- and this is exactly the same as on another, working, computer. Everything in /bin is permissions -rwxr-xr-x. I'm not really even sure what info would be helpful to give. Thank you, Don MacDougall
