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From: Stephen Beitzel <sbeitzel@foobie.net>
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Subject: su -m nobody
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I've got junkbuster installed on a FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE machine, and I'm having
some trouble at startup time: the startup script that gets put in
/usr/local/etc/rc.d contains the following line:
su -m nobody -c "/usr/local/sbin/junkbuster configfile &"

But when the machine starts up execution halts at that line with a message:

mesg: /dev/ttyp0: Operation not permitted

I've checked /etc/passwd (with vipw) and there is an entry for user nobody.
But when I'm logged in as root, I can get this same error message just by
typing `su -m nobody` -- so is there some kind of trick I have to do to
make junkbuster run as an unprivileged process?

Steve


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