Re: /etc/resolv.conf has wrong permissions
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> > However, /etc/resolv.conf is installed with or modified to root/root -rw------- permissions. This
> > sounds logical until a normal user tries to dial out. It was weird, my normal account would dial and
> > login ok, but all of the net calls would show a "Host name lookup failure". I could even su to root
> > and things would work fine.
>
> Interesting. On my 1.1 upgraded to 1.2 and then to 1.3 system the file is
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> -rw-r--r-- and owned by root.root
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>
>
> George Bonser
> grep@oriole.sbay.org, grep@concentric.net
>
I think I found the source of the problem, I copied the file using ftp from the machine I already
have setup. That would change the permissions. Sorry about the waste of bandwidth, it's
obvious who knows what they're doing. Not me.
Thanks
Rob
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