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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-11.sprintlink.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.ac.net!news.serv.net!nntp.teleport.com!news.reed.edu!usenet.ee.pdx.edu!sirius.cs.pdx.edu!daver From: daver@sirius.cs.pdx.edu (Dave Roethig) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: /etc/pwd.db: Permission denied Date: 5 Aug 1996 23:18:53 GMT Organization: Portland State University, Portland, OR Lines: 39 Message-ID: <4u5vgt$m5c@walt.ee.pdx.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sirius.cs.pdx.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Hello, I'm running FreeBSD 2.1.5 and am concerned because the following errors appear each day when the daily report is run: Aug 3 10:30:01 machine su: /etc/pwd.db: Permission denied Aug 4 09:00:03 machine uustat: /etc/pwd.db: Permission denied Aug 5 09:00:01 machine uustat: /etc/pwd.db: Permission denied When someone with bash as their shell logs in, the following error messages appear: Aug 5 09:03:02 machine login: login from machine2 as bob Aug 5 16:03:04 machine -bash: /etc/pwd.db: Permission denied And finally, finger is not happy: Aug 5 16:03:06 machine finger: /etc/pwd.db: Permission denied Aug 5 16:03:42 machine finger: /etc/pwd.db: Permission denied I don't know the cause of these error messages. I believe however, that I may inadventantly partially installed Kerberos during the system install (I don't what Kerberos). Does anybody know the cause and solution of these errors? Thanks Dave daver@cs.pdx.edu