From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 1 8:35: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 056EF37B400 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 08:35:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 6943 invoked by uid 100); 1 Mar 2002 16:34:57 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15487.44461.798715.18182@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 10:34:53 -0600 To: "Megias Sanchez, Jose Manuel" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Help with finger permission denied In-Reply-To: <1A4723CDE42AD611B61200A0C9AA5F3729BB7B@correoex.caja-granada.es> References: <1A4723CDE42AD611B61200A0C9AA5F3729BB7B@correoex.caja-granada.es> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.46 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.5-STABLE-i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Context recovered from top posting] Megias Sanchez, Jose Manuel types: > De: Mike Meyer [mailto:mwm-dated-1015268173.0cf135@mired.org] > > Megias Sanchez, Jose Manuel types: > > > Hello, I've just installed FreeBSD 4.5 stable and when I'm trying to > > > use the finger command I'm receiving the message permission denied. > > Not without knowing exactly what command you are issuing, among other > > things. I.e. - the full text of the command line. If you aren't > > specifying a path to finger, the output of "which finger" would be useful. > mulhacen# finger daemon > finger: Permission denied > > and the daemon entry exists in /etc/passwd. In another system > running the same FreeBSD version the command is running ok but no in this > one. Where is the problem? Ok, where's the output of "which finger"? What are the permissions on the finger binary, and on the ~daemon directory? http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message