mack23@sam.uchicago.edu (Chris Walsh) (07/19/90)
We have just gotten the GA release of AIX 3.1 installed on a POWERStation 530 and have the following weird problem, which has not been heard of by IBM software support. Maybe someone out there has some hints. I am waiting to be contacted by IBM on this, but they don't have a monopoly on knowledge, so here goes... When logged in as Joe User, with initial program of /bin/csh, the pwd command returns "pwd: permission denied" when run anywhere on our users partition (i.e. /u). When run elsewhere, it works fine. Permissions and paths are OK, and the flaw persists when /bin/pwd is called explicitly, plus the problem exists even in the absence of a user's .cshrc. When root attempts the same thing, it works fine. When Joe User spawns a Korn shell, or if his initial program is /bin/ksh everything works fine! The same weirdness pertains if the shell involved is /bin/bsh! If anyone has had (and, hopefully, cured!) this problem, please e-mail me. Anyone with suggestions re: a solution can do the same. Thanks. I will post the fix that works. Chris Walsh University of Chicago Social Sciences and Public Policy Computation Center Disclaimer: Since this is my first posting, I have no fancy .sig and therefore would be mightily embarrassed to inadvertently be considered as speaking for anyone but myself.