root problem

R Kimber rkimber at ntlworld.com
Tue May 8 19:08:52 UTC 2007


On Tue, 8 May 2007 13:43:38 -0400
Bruce Marshall wrote:

> On Tuesday 08 May 2007, R Kimber wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 May 2007 17:48:27 -0400
> >
> > Bruce Marshall wrote:
> > > Works fine here as root...   I suspect you aren't really running
> > > it as root.
> >
> > whoami reports root
> 
> Maybe root has lost some of its privs??

I'm not sure I understand.  How might that happen?

-- 
Richard Kimber
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/




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