Re: Cannot su.
On Sat, 22 May 1999, Rob wrote:
> You get these errors (sometimes) when suing to a normal user from another
> normal user, eg:
>
> /home/jim has permission 700 (drwx------) and I'm in /home/jim (and I AM jim
> ;) I do 'su bob', enter the correct password, and I get those messages.
> Which makes sense, because I don't (and shouldn't) have access to jim's
> stuff.
My su doesn't give that error. It just says "Permission denied" when i try
anything that would involve accessing the contents of the current
directory. No errors though, and pwd works fine.
What version of su do you use?
$ su --version
su (GNU sh-utils) 1.16
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