Re: /dev/pts/0: Operation not permitted
In article <[🔎] 20040824124319.GX16864@sun.ac.za>,
Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za> 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.
>
>Apart from the error message everything seems work normally:
>
>14:40:38 js@mxx:/var/log/exim4$ sudo su - sysadm
>/dev/pts/0: Operation not permitted
>14:40:42 sysadm@mxx:~$
>
>What is causing this?
Probably a 'mesg n' in /etc/profile or somesuch. After a su,
/dev/pts/0 is still owned by the previous userid.
Mike.
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