> My su doesn't give that error. It just says "Permission denied" when i try
> anything that would involve accessing the contents of the current
> directory. No errors though, and pwd works fine.
Sorry, my mistake. I forgot, I only see this on my girlfriend's machine, and
I assume its because she
On Sat, 22 May 1999, Rob wrote:
> You get these errors (sometimes) when suing to a normal user from another
> normal user, eg:
>
> /home/jim has permission 700 (drwx--) and I'm in /home/jim (and I AM jim
> ;) I do 'su bob', enter the correct password, and I get those messages.
> Which makes s
Yeah, that would be a more likely reason. However, messing up permissions
could do that as well.
Andrew.
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> The only time i can recall seeing those errors is when the cwd is moved or
> removed. Just now, i created a dir 'test', cd-ed to it as root, removed it
> from another tty, and su-ed to a normal user. Sure enough, there's the
> error. Even if it's removed and remade from the other tty before su-in
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
> > shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent
> > directories.
>
> Check your permissions on . and .. directories. They should be
> chmod'd and chown'd as below.
>
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 2 19:2
> shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent
> directories.
>
> Best wishes,
> Chip
Check your permissions on . and .. directories. They should be
chmod'd and chown'd as below.
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 2 19:21 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root roo
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