Re: root can't su to a user???

["Adam Alexander" <adam tjconline com>]

This one's easy...  it just means that the user you are su'ing to does not
have permission to read the directory you are currently in.  Try this:

# cd /tmp
# su normaluser
$

Doing it that way should work fine.

Adam Alexander



-----Original Message-----
From: Gerry Doris <gdoris shaw wave ca>
To: redhat-list redhat com <redhat-list redhat com>
Date: Monday, January 25, 1999 11:33 PM
Subject: root can't su to a user???


>Well, I've done something and can't figger out what it was???  I can no
>longer su to a normal user while root.  I get the following error
>"shell-init: could not get current directory"
>
>What have I done now :-(
>
>Gerry
>
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