From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 26 7:12:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from polaris.shore.net (polaris.shore.net [207.244.124.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC35214E33 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 07:12:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rothenberg@automationonline.com) Received: from shore.shore.net [192.233.85.136] by polaris.shore.net with esmtp (Exim) for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org id 11g7KT-0004WA-00; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:12:01 -0400 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by shore.shore.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id KAA04196 for shore!freebsd.org!freebsd-questions; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:11:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from baffle. automationonline.com by slider.automationonline.com via SMTP (911016.SGI/911001.SGI) for shore!freebsd.org!freebsd-questions id AA26914; Tue, 26 Oct 99 09:34:42 -0400 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19991026093038.007274e8@slider> X-Sender: rothenberg@slider X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 09:30:38 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Michael Rothenberg Subject: Permissions for users in general Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just installed 3.2. I created a generic user for practice. I logged in as the generic user and went to edit the .shrc with vi. vi gave me the message: Permission denied: Modifications not recoveralble if session fails. There was a file mentioned as well, something like vi.recover I think. My guess is that a generic user does not have write permision where ever the recover file lives. So I either point vi to use the user's home dir or allow everyone write access to this file. Makes more sence to use the home dir. I have not done any reading on it yet, but if someone couls at least confirm my guess that would be great };) Thanks and have a nice day! -michael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message