1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi Forums, It seems to me that I can't use "su" command. When I type "su", I get the following message: /sbin/su - Permission denied Am I missing any thing? By the way I am using IRIX6.5 on a SGI computer. Many thanks in advance for your help. Cheers, Siavoush (12 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Ok heres the situation I've been studying Solaris 8 for about 6 months now and some things click in my head but others don't. One of the things that don't click are file permissions. For example I login at work and I use the ls -l command to get a long listing of the files w/ the permissions.... (2 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Is it possible to set owner to a group? I need to have a group own a process, because there will be 3 diffrent persons that will start and stop this process. They can not use the same users cause och back logging. we need to know who end when a certian user start/stops processes. (1 Reply)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

What does the following permission indicate? -rwSr----- 1 oracle dba 1536 Nov 7 17:05 orapwRTMDB Thanks, Rahul. (1 Reply)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

How can view the list of only those files & directories which have read permission..! (9 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi everyone. i´ve been burning my head for a week now with this problem and i couldn´t find a solution. i´ve been looking for an answer in this forum but nothing either. so i decided to ask. the thing is, i want to create a users with permission to kill just a group of users. i know how to write... (6 Replies)

7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi, in short I want a proftp server to authenticate against an ldap server. I have configured 1 proftp server to do this and it works as butter. I have configured another one in my opinion in exactly the same way and it does not work. All servers are up-to-date debian. For proftp is installed... (1 Reply)

8. Ubuntu

Pictures by worthamtx - Photobucket The URL is graphic view my present concern. Old partition working great sdb1 both appear on nautilus, both deliver icons to desk top. Based on the label handling of gparted results I tried following with success sudo mkdir /media/disk/data sudo chown... (1 Reply)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello Whenever we want to oen any type of file by name, we must have execute perm. in each dir. mentioned in the name. I changed the dir permission using chmod to test the validity of this statement. but i still can open the file ------- any guides would be appreciable (2 Replies)

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I dont understand why permission changes are being such a pain in the bum even after I manually changed them through properties....Anyone know what to do here because even thoguh in properties the permissions make me local admin over in the Cygwin its not working.. ... (5 Replies)