[NTLUG:Discuss] su

[Randall Gibson]

That would more likely generate the error "Permission denied" if that was the problem, would it not?? Anyways, if so, how to fix it?


On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 20:40:09 Jeff Nelson wrote:
> the tty is still owned by root, thus mesg as a normal user is not able to
> manipulate the tty
> 
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> Hello all,
> 
> I am using bash in SuSE linux 6.4 and I can "su -" as a regular user just
> fine, but when I "su - user" as root it tells me:
> 
> mesg: /dev/tty?: Operation not permitted
> 
> but it still allows me to su anyway. I've checked everything I can think
> to check and I can't figure this one out. Anyone know the solution?
> 
> Thanks...
> 
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