From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 18 13:26:02 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47E5516A402 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2007 13:26:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E4DB13C48E for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2007 13:26:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] (archangel.daleco.biz [69.27.145.126]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l1IDPvuF056392; Sun, 18 Feb 2007 07:25:58 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <45D853E0.3060509@daleco.biz> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 07:25:52 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20070207 SeaMonkey/1.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Rajen Jani (BT Yahoo! Broadband)" References: <45D84A12.8060302@btinternet.com> In-Reply-To: <45D84A12.8060302@btinternet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Permission Denied X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 13:26:02 -0000 Rajen Jani (BT Yahoo! Broadband) wrote: > Hello everyone, > Hello; I've tried to "guess" the most likely answers from the symptoms your describe. > I have installed FreeBSD clean from start but everytime I try > to do something like say run ./configure > on my home directory, I get the "permission denied" message. Which would indicate that "configure" exists in the current working directory, but isn't set executable, at least not for the current user (you). At least, that's the most likely scenario. If you "chmod 777 ./configure", will it work? > Can anyone help me please. When i type in "su rajen" it seems > to log me in but it doesn't ask me for the root password. > So, you are a member of the wheel group, and root has no password set. You can tell if you are actually "logged in" by typing "id". If there's no root password, this is not a Good Thing(tm) --- log in as root and run "chpass". If "su" still doesn't ask you for a password after that, write the list back, as you likely have a more serious problem. Kevin Kinsey -- Jacquin's Postulate on Democratic Government: No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.