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From: finger@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Jay Finger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: I can only log in as root!
Message-ID: <1990Dec28.163640.23400@evax.arl.utexas.edu>
Date: 28 Dec 90 16:36:40 GMT
References: <11086@helios.TAMU.EDU>
Organization: Computer Science Engineering Univ. of Texas at Arlington
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Thanks to those of you who responded.  I managed to get the permissions
on the root directory set to 666.  I was in the sub-directory at the
time, but I did a "chmod 666 .*" in order to also set the hidden files
in the subdirectory, one of which (obviously) was "..", thus changing
root.

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Jay Finger
Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington