rmdir problem in SCO UNIX

Paul Ashton paul at tetrauk.UUCP
Wed Sep 26 19:51:28 AEST 1990


> I booted my Compaq Syspro 386 with an emergency boot floppy and
> tried to remove a directory both with rm an with rmdir. However,
> I get the error message:

>  	rmdir:  setuid(2) failed, Not owner

C2 strikes again!

solution is type
su
then rmdir
setuid will fail if the login uid is not set, however su sets it if it
is not already set. Obviously the single user login doesn't set your luid.
-- 
Paul



More information about the Comp.unix.sysv386 mailing list