From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 20 21:27:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id VAA27907 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 21:27:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from labs.usn.blaze.net.au (labs.usn.blaze.net.au [203.17.53.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id VAA27902 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 21:27:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from davidn@localhost) by labs.usn.blaze.net.au (8.8.4/8.8.4) id QAA00360; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 16:27:22 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 16:27:19 +1100 From: davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au (David Nugent) To: stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.com (Free BSD Questions list) Subject: Re: rwhod[xxx] whod.machine Permission Denied References: <199701210459.XAA22164@netcom17.netcom.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.56 Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199701210459.XAA22164@netcom17.netcom.com>; from Stan Brown on Jan 20, 1997 23:59:50 -0500 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Stan Brown writes: > I just upgraded from 2.1.5 to 2.2 Bata and I am getting these messages. > I recognize that it's complaining about packest coming from other > machines for the rwho daemon, but what has changed here. This used to > wrok. Check the ownership/permissions on /var/rwho, which should be: drwxrwxr-x 2 bin daemon 512 Jan 10 02:45 rwho/ That should get you wroking and wrolling again. :-) > What ne secyrity? feature has been added ? I believe this is a case where rwhod did not need root privileges, and was therefore modified to change uid to a non-root user after binding its port. Permissions on the directory used to store its data therefore need to be modified so that it is group writable by group 'daemon'. Regards, David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia Voice +61-3-9791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet davidn@freebsd.org davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn/