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From: altitude@css.itd.umich.edu (Alex Tang)
Newsgroups: umich.unix,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: HELP!!!! (permissions and such Messed)
Date: 11 Dec 1993 23:11:56 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan ITD/User Services
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Help me foks. I've really meessed up my machine. I'm running
NetBSD-0.8. It's a 4.3BSD variant. I was happily editing some files
today, when i did something (don't know exactly what), and I sent the
load skyrocketting. I killed the session which was messing up my
machine, and the load returned to normal. When i went to go back to
editing my files, I did vi...Permission denied. I did
whoami...Permission denied. Everything I did (except ls) said permission
denied (su, whoami, who, pwd....). I couldn't cd out of my current
directory either.
I went to console, and figured i'd reboot it and everything was fine. I
logged in as root, and that worked fine. I rebooted....Same problem. I
noticed then that when i try to log into it, it says "/bin/csh"
permission denied.
I can log in as root just fine. But no one else. It seems that no one
(except root) has permission to do/to access anything.
hubt did something by logging in as root, and copying sh into his home
dir. he then changed his shell to "./sh". He could then log in, but
couldn't access any files.
I fsck'ed my disk, and it said there were summary problems, but it said
it fixed them. Still nothing works.
I've become really sad (and confused) with my machine.
Help :(
thanx...alex...
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Alex Tang --- ALTITUDE@UMICH.EDU...USERW00Y@UMICHUM.BITNET
-----------+ U of M, SNRE: Student and Computer Consultant II,
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