Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:46:40 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: joda pain <jodapain@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: no permission for root??? Message-ID: <42FD26D0.6070109@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <9332ce4905081215117c558e7@mail.gmail.com> References: <9332ce4905081215117c558e7@mail.gmail.com>
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joda pain wrote: >I have ran a fresh install on the same hard drive 3 times. I log into >root without any problems. When I try to run simple commands like >checking virtual consoles (/etc/ttys) I get a "Permission denied". I >don't understand why this is happening. I can't access any admin >properties because of permissions. What am I doing wrong??? I'm using >vr. 5.4 > >Example: >login: root >password: > >NetwerksBSD# /etc/ttys >/etc/ttys: Permission denied > >There must be someone or some place I can get an answer for this question. >Right now i gather all my answers from man pages & FreeBSD Handbook >online http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html > > Try vim /etc/ttys or ee /etc/ttys. You do realize that /etc/ttys is a flat, non-executable file, correct? Are you sure you understand how Unix permissions/shell invocations work? I'm sure that someone here would be willing to teach you if that's the issue at hand. -Garrett
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