On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 05:40:07PM +1000, Peter Phillips wrote:
> Thanks for your help, this is what I get when I try a uptime while logged in
> as nobody.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> host:/# su nobody
> host:/$ uptime
> Error: /proc must be mounted
>   To mount /proc at boot you need an /etc/fstab line like:
>       /proc   /proc   proc    defaults
>   In the meantime, mount /proc /proc -t proc
> Error: /proc must be mounted
>   To mount /proc at boot you need an /etc/fstab line like:
>       /proc   /proc   proc    defaults
>   In the meantime, mount /proc /proc -t proc
>   2:38am  up 0 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> These are the permissions is /proc:
> -r--r--r--   1 root     root            0 Jun 26 02:39 loadavg
> -r--r--r--   1 root     root            0 Jun 26 02:33 uptime
> 
> What should they be to enable nobody to access uptime?

What are the permission for /proc itself? it needs to be 755

If you have strace, you can strace uptime and see exactly what kind of
error you are getting when uptime tries to open /proc/uptime and
/proc/loadavg.


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