From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 4 15:30:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D58116A4CE for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 15:30:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from kogut3.o2.pl (kogut3.go2.pl [212.126.20.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61E1F43D4C for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 15:30:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from carlos66news@o2.pl) Received: from o2.pl (rekin7.go2.pl [212.126.20.19]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by kogut3.o2.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AC9B7860C; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 00:28:41 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4047BB90.70804@o2.pl> Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 00:28:16 +0100 From: Karol Kwiatkowski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en, pl, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gerard Seibert References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Error Msg X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: carlos66news@o2.pl List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 23:30:56 -0000 Gerard Seibert wrote: > I am using FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE (GENERIC) #0: MON FEB 23 29:45:55 GMT > 2004 > > I just recently posted about a problem I was having logging into my > computer. I eventually was able to log in. I deleted the existing user and > subsequently recreated the user. I also had to delete the group as well to > complete the operation. > > However, although I can access my system, the following error message > appears when I do an su command. > > This is the error message: > > Mar 4 15:52:42 BudMan su: _secure_path: /usr/home/ges/.login_conf is not > owed by root > > The following error message likes to pop up at various times also: > > Mar 4 15:55:01 BudMan cron[541]: _secure_path: /usr/home/ges/.login_conf > is not owned by root > > The time and date obviously change upon each new occurrence of the > message, as well as the number following 'cron'. > > I have read the man on "_secure_path" but I have no idea what I am > supposed to do to correct this problem. Even more mysterious is that this problem > and several others only surfaced after installing KDE 3.2. > > I welcome any assistance someone can afford me, > > > Thanks! > > Gerard Seibert > gerard-seibert@rcn.com > ICQ: 95653152 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Recently I had similar problem, not with root though. I reinstalled FreeBSD (without removing /home) and then added users. Obviously uids changed and I was getting those messages: /home/user/.login_conf is not owned by uid 1002 (for example) All I needed to do was 'chmod -R user:user /home/user/*' (recursive) Note: check man chmod, I'm not sure if that's good syntax Check the owner of that file. I'm not sure why do you get 'is not owned by *root*' but maybe it's similar problem. Hope that helps Karol Kwiatkowski