On Sat, 22 May 1999, Rob wrote: > You get these errors (sometimes) when suing to a normal user from another > normal user, eg: > > /home/jim has permission 700 (drwx------) and I'm in /home/jim (and I AM jim > ;) I do 'su bob', enter the correct password, and I get those messages. > Which makes sense, because I don't (and shouldn't) have access to jim's > stuff.
My su doesn't give that error. It just says "Permission denied" when i try anything that would involve accessing the contents of the current directory. No errors though, and pwd works fine. What version of su do you use? $ su --version su (GNU sh-utils) 1.16
