Re: /dev/pts/0: Operation not permitted

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

Hello Thomas,

Thanks for your reply.

On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 02:01:12PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 02:43:19PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> > When I do a su - sysadm on one server with Woody I get the error
> > message in the subject line. That happens only when su to sysadm is
> > being used.
> 
> Hmm, try adding the user to the 'tty' group.

15:24:40 js@mxx:/opt/archive$ sudo adduser sysadm tty
Adding user sysadm to group tty...
Done.
15:24:48 js@mxx:/opt/archive$ sudo su - sysadm
/dev/pts/0: Operation not permitted
15:24:54 sysadm@mxx:~$

I have also added js to tty, but it did not make a difference.

Regards
Johann
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