On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 07:42:35PM -0400, Gerry Doris wrote: > I upgraded to RH 9 from 7.3. I thought that all was working properly but > I just ran into a strange one with su. > > I'm sure that I was able as root to just do a > > su gerry > > and I would become user "gerry". However, when I try that now I become > user "gerry" but the following error message is printed out... > > /bin/bash: /root/.bashrc: Permission denied > > I can eliminate the error message by just doing a > > su - gerry > > Also, as "gerry" I can su to root or another user without error (just > asked for the correct password). It's only when I try to su as root to > another user without the "-" that causes the error. > > Anyone know why this has started to happen? > > -- When you do su gerry as root you are becoming gerry with root's environment. su - gerry becomes gerry with gerry's environment. It does not surprise me that gerry can't execute /root/.bashrc which is what would have to happen when you do su gerry. I would suspect that the permissions on /root/.bashrc prevent that from happening. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
