On Fri, 2017-02-17 at 06:31 -0600, Lonnie Abelbeck wrote:
> Armin,
Lonnie,

thanks!

> It is a permissions thing ...
> 
> vi creates a temp file in /var/tmp/ which is only writable by root,
> so it exits for non-root users.
> 
> Though "nano" works for non-root users.  Good enough for editing
> ~/.bash_profile .
> 
> Additionally, our new upstream "restricted" users using /bin/rbash
> can't edit at all, so not an issue there.
> 
> Lonnie
> 
> 
> 
> On Feb 17, 2017, at 1:19 AM, Armin Tüting <armin.tueting@tueting-onli
> ne.com> wrote:
> 
> > Greetings.
> > 
> > I'm unable to edit a simple text file as non-root.  vi
> > ~/.bash_history
> > returns back to the shell.
> > 
> > $ stat ~/.bash_profile 
> >   File: '/home/admin/.bash_profile' -> 'dotfiles/bash/profile'
> >   Size: 21          Blocks: 0          IO Block:
> > 4096   symbolic
> > link
> > Device: 803h/2051d  Inode: 138453      Links: 1
> > Access: (0777/lrwxrwxrwx)  Uid: (50001/   admin)   Gid:
> > (50001/   admin)
> > Access: 2016-11-22 18:24:59.000000000
> > Modify: 2015-01-22 09:45:03.000000000
> > Change: 2016-11-22 18:24:59.000000000
> > 
> > Any hints?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Armin.
> > 
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