FW: adduser and permissions
I've found the solution to my problem. The owner.group permissions on
the /tmp directory were wrong. I've set this to rwxrwxrwt root.root. I
looked at a RedHat Linux system and copied the attributes.
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> From: Carr, Daryl B.[SMTP:DARYL@monm.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 1998 8:23 AM
> To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org'
> Subject: adduser and permissions
>
> Hello,
> I'm new to this list and to Debian Linux.
> When I add a user with 'adduser', there seems to be a permission
> problem. This manifests itself in various ways. Two significant ways
> are:
> 1) calling the 'mail' program I get the response:
> "Bad address"
> 2) calling the 'man' program I get the response
> man: can't create a temporary filename: No such file or
> directory
>
> Thanks for any help.
> Daryl Carr
> Monmouth College
> Monmouth, IL 61462
> daryl@monm.edu
>
>
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