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Date:      Tue, 2 Mar 2004 16:59:08 +0100
From:      Melvyn Sopacua <freebsd-current@webteckies.org>
To:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: vipw: pw_tmp(): Operation not permitted
Message-ID:  <200403021659.16782.freebsd-current@webteckies.org>
In-Reply-To: <4044874D.2040208@dnainternet.net>
References:  <4044874D.2040208@dnainternet.net>

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On Tuesday 02 March 2004 14:08, Erik U. wrote:

> I get this weird error when i try executing vipw:
> [root@koti] /home/erik $ vipw
> vipw: pw_tmp(): Operation not permitted
> [root@koti] /home/erik $

Operation not permitted is something else then 'permission denied'. Permission 
denied is related to file and network permissions. Operation not permitted 
relates to operations which are disabled in the kernel or by flags on files 
(see chflags(1)). What's the output of:
sysctl kern.securelevel

-- 
Melvyn

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FreeBSD sarevok.idg.nl 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #2: Mon Feb 16 19:59:52 
CET 2004     
root@sarevok.webteckies.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SAREVOK_NOAPM_NODEBUG  i386
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