From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 27 06:28:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA27883 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 May 1998 06:28:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from couatl.uchicago.edu (couatl.uchicago.edu [128.135.21.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA27850 for ; Wed, 27 May 1998 06:28:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfarrell@couatl.uchicago.edu) Received: (from sfarrell@localhost) by couatl.uchicago.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) id IAA25239; Wed, 27 May 1998 08:28:19 -0500 (CDT) To: laszlo vagner Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: operation not permitted References: <199805270459.XAA19791@mutsgo.kf7nn.com> From: sfarrell@farrell.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: 27 May 1998 08:28:19 -0500 In-Reply-To: laszlo vagner's message of "Tue, 26 May 1998 23:59:13 -0500 (CDT)" Message-ID: <87solvq1vw.fsf@couatl.uchicago.edu> Lines: 22 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.9/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG laszlo vagner writes: > when i su to vagner i get this message but it still lets me do it. > > /home/kf7nn >su vagner > Password: > mesg: /dev/ttyp0: Operation not permitted > /home/kf7nn >whoami > vagner > /home/kf7nn > > > what could be wrong? Nothing important. vagner is running something like mesg on in his .cshrc/.bashrc/whatever. when you su to the person you can't do that. I"m not sure why (I'm guessing some security fix), but it's not very important. -- Steve Farrell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message