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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!lynx.aba.net.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!hunter.premier.net!news.cais.net!mr.net!newshub.tc.umn.edu!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: /etc/pwd.db: Permission denied Date: 9 Aug 1996 20:09:32 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4ug5ts$4l8@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4u5vgt$m5c@walt.ee.pdx.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E daver@sirius.cs.pdx.edu (Dave Roethig) wrote: > 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 Make sure /etc/pwd.db is mode 0644 (and owned by root, of course). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)