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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!news.dfn.de!rrz.uni-koeln.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!teralon!easix!jester!michael From: michael@jester.GUN.de (Michael Gerhards) Subject: 1.1G: uucp: permission denied ? Organization: private FreeBSD system - member of the IN e.V. Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 19:18:26 GMT X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Message-ID: <Cto0B9.2EC@jester.GUN.de> Lines: 32 Hi, I upgraded from 1.02 to 1.1G and everything seemd to run very nice. But today, I tried to use uucp to copy a file to a friends system and the following happened: When I started the command "uucp file system!~/file" as a normal user, I got the message: "uucp: fopen(system/D./D.000A) permission denied". ( I'm using the /bin/sh, so I don't need to escape the ! ) If I execute the same command as root, the file is created, but uucp aborts the transfer with "cannot open D.000A: permission denied", because the file has permission 600 and is owned by root. An uustat after the call sais the same thing. I su'ed to uucp and tried to create the suspect file by hand and it worked. Of course, the command uucp which failed has the correct perms: -r-s--x--x 1 uucp bin 81920 Apr 18 10:48 /usr/bin/uucp -r-sr-xr-x 1 uucp bin 90112 Apr 18 10:48 /usr/bin/uustat I knwo that the problem seems to be a wrong permission anywhere in my filesystem, but I can't find it. /etc/uucp/* is permission 600 and owned by uucp.wheel /var/spool/uucp/* is permission 755 and owned by uucp.daemon Any hints are really appreciated. Michael -- michael@jester.GUN.de # Michael Gerhards , Preussenstrasse 59 , D 41464 Neuss