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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD no root users and excution of files Date: 13 Dec 1994 16:42:11 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 30 Message-ID: <3ckit3$gks@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <3cj2bc$ekm@sparc.occ.uky.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <3cj2bc$ekm@sparc.occ.uky.edu>, Andy Beal <bealar@ndlc.occ.uky.edu> wrote: >The root can execute anything runnable on the system, but other users, IE >my additional account, seem to have problems. The most irritating is vi, >any account that is not root can't execute it. As root: # chmod 1777 /tmp /var/tmp This was a bug in the earlier installation floppies. >Several other files that have rx permissions to user, group, and other >seem to have the same type of problem. I usually get an unable to locate >filename, unless I am root. Is the path in the user account setup to look in the same places as root? If those programs aren't in the path, it's either a mis-configuration OR that those files don't need to be run by non-root users. I generally ignore that 'help', and put all binary directories in my path and let the program complain if I shouldn't run it. :-) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD dude and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-5980 | Unemployed, looking for permanant work in home #: (406) 586-0579 | CS/EE field.