Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 09:05:59 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> To: "John J. Fox IV" <jfox@wizzards.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: finger: permission denied Message-ID: <19990706090559.E85561@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <199907060533.WAA02748@indrani>; from John J. Fox IV on Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 10:33:27PM -0700 References: <199907060533.WAA02748@indrani>
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On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 10:33:27PM -0700, John J. Fox IV wrote: > As root: > -------- > [indrani:~]# whoami > root > [indrani:~]# finger > finger: Permission denied > [indrani:~]# ls -l /usr/bin/finger > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 16104 May 17 20:40 /usr/bin/finger* Perhaps you can run "which finger" as root to make sure you're really running /usr/bin/finger? I don't have any other ideas right now. Matt -- Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * Science rules. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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