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Old 03-30-2009
jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is offline Forum Staff  
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Are the privs required related to file access?

Try adding an account that can newgrp to the root, bin, adm, mail or whatever group it requires to get into the files in question.

Code:
newgrp root