when you su to testuser, you are probably still in the root's home folder. If so, does the testuser account have permissions to the root user's folders? If you have not set this up manually, then the script will not be able to read root's .bashrc file (which is in the current directory so will be the one used). I would assume then that even though the .bashrc file can't be read, a default is then used so that bash can still continue to work.
If you were to do a "cd ~" after su'ing to testuser, you should then be in the testuser's home. Try your test there. Hope this helps (and that I'm not too far off the mark on my response). Shawn -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Pete Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 4:35 PM To: CLUG General Subject: [clug-talk] BASH & permissions Hi all : Got a problem with bash on a new Fedora Core 1install. When I execute my script (clientLogin) as root there is no problem when I su to testuser and execute the script I get : /bin/bash: /root/.bashrc: Permission denied Now what has /bin/bash to do with /root/.bashrc ? Permision overview -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 211 Apr 30 16:17 clientLogin The script it self : #!/bin/bash # echo "My clientLoginScript" Strange thing is that after the err I get my result... su testuser ./clientLogin /bin/bash: /root/.bashrc: Permission denied My clientLoginScript Have I nice Week-End Peter _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
