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From: kai@phantom.com (Kai)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Problems with SU...
Date: 22 Dec 1993 21:29:17 GMT
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Gabriel Ibanez C. (gibanez@dcc.uchile.cl) wrote:
: Hi there,

:    I have some problems with "su", it says:

: tcsh: getwd: can't stat .
: tcsh: Trying to start from "/"
: #

hmm,looks almost like you su'd to a user who hasn't read access to
the current working directory, but a plain 'su' .hmm ?
bye,Kai