From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 23 02:34:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA03803 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 02:34:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA03669 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 02:33:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA04251; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 02:33:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 02:33:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "John D. Morrison" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: resolving security and permissions problems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, John D. Morrison wrote: > I've installed FBSD 2.2.5, read the manual, and have exhausted > all ideas about how to solve the problems I'm encountering. When > I set up my user ID, I made sure to include it in the wheel group, but > it doesn't seem like I'm getting the permissions I should. I'm getting > permission denied messages in /sbin, even though all the flags > are identical to files in /bin. Also, my shell and login scripts in my > home directory are not visible to me unless I change to su. Odd. What does an ls -l report? How about an ls -l in /usr/home? > Also, my path always shows up the same when I use env, no > matter what changes I make to my .login file in my user directory > after I change to su. The path in my .login file includes > /usr/X11R6/bin, but when I do an env, the path shown does not > include it. If I try to use env to change the path to include > /usr/X11R6/bin, > it doesn't work. It just reverts back to the original. If you run su and not su -m, it will pull in /root/.profile when you su. > Finally, when I installed FBSD (from CDROM), I specifically remember > telling it to include games as part of the distribution, but the only > directory I have under /usr/games is hide, which seems to be empty. > Even as su I don't get anything with ls. The install may have failed. Games is a bit wacky since all the real binaries are crunched into hide. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message