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Date:      27 May 1998 08:28:19 -0500
From:      sfarrell@farrell.org
To:        laszlo vagner <vagner@mutsgo.kf7nn.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: operation not permitted
Message-ID:  <87solvq1vw.fsf@couatl.uchicago.edu>
In-Reply-To: laszlo vagner's message of "Tue, 26 May 1998 23:59:13 -0500 (CDT)"
References:  <199805270459.XAA19791@mutsgo.kf7nn.com>

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laszlo vagner <vagner@mutsgo.kf7nn.com> writes:

> when i su to vagner i get this message but it still lets me do it.
> 
> /home/kf7nn >su vagner
> Password:
> mesg: /dev/ttyp0: Operation not permitted
> /home/kf7nn >whoami
> vagner
> /home/kf7nn >
> 
> what could be wrong?

Nothing important.  vagner is running something like mesg on in his
.cshrc/.bashrc/whatever.  when you su to the person you can't do that.
I"m not sure why (I'm guessing some security fix), but it's not very
important.

--

Steve Farrell


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