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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!news.byu.edu!cwis.isu.edu!u.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: telnet help please Date: 27 Apr 1994 05:51:33 GMT Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT Lines: 30 Message-ID: <2pkuh5$gra@u.cc.utah.edu> References: <1994Apr18.221503.3512@hns.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.weber.edu In article <1994Apr18.221503.3512@hns.com> elufker@hns.com (Ed Lufker) writes: > Can anyone tell me why telnet will work for the root account and >not any other accounts. Is there a way to see what files telnet hits while >its executing or does someone know what files telnet uses when it executes. >I have a hunch that its a permissions problem. It's not in your path as a normal user? 8-). Seriously, you'd need to give more information (like, oh, say, what the heck OS, rev, hardware, and vendor, plus the exact error message you see when it fails) for a definitive answer. It *sounds* to me from the little info given that your telnet is trying to log or otherwise access something joe user can't as part of coming up. On a BSD system, you should "trace" the telnet; on a SVR4 system, you should "truss" it. On the other hand, you could need port priveleges if you are on a SVR4 system, and if you have an ES version (like UnixWare), you should look at the "filepriv" command. Then again, your hosts file may not be normally readable... or your password file (the one without the encrypted passwords, not the shadow file). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.