Re: junkbuster acting up

[John Leget <johnjl@ihug.co.nz>]

Hmm , just tested that by changing to /root as root then "su"->normal user no problem

"ls" of course gives permission denied.

Anyway i think i solved the problem in a round about way, i noticed in one of the sys
logs that and error would come up with regards to user "nobody" i deleted it and
recreated the user. ( this was mucking junkbuster up )

Now i believe this is a special "dummy" user so now it exists as a "real" user but at
least the prior problem has dissappeared. (junkbuster runs ok )  Is this likely to
create further problems, if so how would i recreate the originall "dummy" user
"nobody"

thanx for the response though
Martin Bialasinski wrote:

> >> "JL" == John Leget <johnjl@ihug.co.nz> writes:
>
> JL> I now also get the following error when trying to fire it up again
> JL> manually "etc/init.d/junkbuster start" which give me this
>
> JL> "# shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot
> JL> access parent directories: Permission denied"
>
> This message shouldn't prevent junkbuster from starting. Check ps ax |
> grep junkbuster
>
> JL> Hmm just tried a few things and noticed that the above error message
> JL> also appears when i try to use "su"  root -> normal user, when allready
> JL> logged in as root, but not the other way around, huh.  :(
>
> This error happens because you are in root's homedir. and this
> directory is mode 750, so only root can enter it. If you su to another
> user, this user can't determine the current directory (he doesn't have
> permission to read the inode). This also happens with junkbuster, as
> the init scripts does a su to nobody.
>
> Ciao,
>         Martin
>
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