From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 3 11: 1:40 2003 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 5D81A37B406 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 11:01:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from lorax.forestry.umn.edu (x74-47.forestry.umn.edu [128.101.74.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B54A43F75 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 11:01:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kwythers@x74-47.forestry.umn.edu) Received: from lorax.forestry.umn.edu (localhost.forestry.umn.edu [127.0.0.1]) by lorax.forestry.umn.edu (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h13J1UHs015783 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:01:30 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kwythers@x74-47.forestry.umn.edu) Received: from localhost (kwythers@localhost) by lorax.forestry.umn.edu (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) with ESMTP id h13J1UvY015780 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:01:30 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: lorax.forestry.umn.edu: kwythers owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:01:30 -0600 (CST) From: "Kirk R. Wythers" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: vi permissions Message-ID: <20030203125622.K15740@lorax.forestry.umn.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 I'm trying to create a .bashrc file with vi in my home directroy. I'm gettting the error: su-2.05b$ vi .bashrc ex/vi: Error: Unable to create temporary file: Permission denied su-2.05b$ I am working on configuring a newly set up 5.0-RELEASE box. Permissions must be messed up somewhere. I can't believe that I neet to be root in order to create a . file. Thanks, Kirk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message