Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xscavenger - game
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 03:55:19
Message-Id: 20130706035536.GD30211@syscon7.inet
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] xscavenger - game by David Relson
1 On 07/05/13 23:36, David Relson wrote:
2 >On Fri, 5 Jul 2013 18:49:20 -0600
3 >Joseph wrote:
4 >
5 >> I installed "xscavenger" and it installed without any problems but I
6 >> can seems to find this game anywhere. Yes, I'm in "games" group.
7 >>
8 >> >From the command line:
9 >> /usr/games/bin/scavenger
10 >> -bash: /usr/games/bin/scavenger: Permission denied
11 >>
12 >> /usr/games/bin/scavenger
13 >> -rwxr-x--- 1 root games 70496 Jul 5 18:39 /usr/games/bin/scavenger
14 >>
15 >> --
16 >> Joseph
17 >
18 >User root has permissions rwx. Group games has permissions
19 >r-x. Everyone else has no access (permission ---).
20 >
21 >You're getting "Permission denied" because you're not running as root and you're not a member
22 >of group "games".
23 >
24 >Regards,
25 >
26 >David
27
28 Thanks David for pointing it.
29 Your are correct.
30
31 What was confusing to me is the fact that I logged into the system via ssh to my account and "su" to use who was in group "games" but for some reason or another the
32 games would not execute.
33
34 When I ssh directly to the user account, it worked :-/
35
36 --
37 Joseph

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] xscavenger - game Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
Re: [gentoo-user] xscavenger - game Bryan Gardiner <bog@××××××.net>