Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 11:01:25 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Melvyn Sopacua <freebsd-current@webteckies.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: vipw: pw_tmp(): Operation not permitted Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040302110007.4906B-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <200403021659.16782.freebsd-current@webteckies.org>
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On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Melvyn Sopacua wrote: > On Tuesday 02 March 2004 14:08, Erik U. wrote: > > > I get this weird error when i try executing vipw: > > [root@koti] /home/erik $ vipw > > vipw: pw_tmp(): Operation not permitted > > [root@koti] /home/erik $ > > Operation not permitted is something else then 'permission denied'. > Permission denied is related to file and network permissions. Operation > not permitted relates to operations which are disabled in the kernel or > by flags on files (see chflags(1)). What's the output of: sysctl > kern.securelevel Sounds like it could well be a file locking problem. Is rpc.lockd running on both sides, or alternatively, can the file system be mounted using -L so as to use local-only locking similar to 4.x? Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research
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