topic Re: pwd : Permission Denied in Operating System - HP-UX

pwd : Permission Denied

Kong Kian Chay — Thu, 24 May 2001 07:41:06 GMT

HP-UX 10.20 system. No problem for "root". However, for a normal user :--
#cd (goto Home-Dir)
#pwd (O.K, no problem)
#/usr/bin/pwd (pwd : Permission Denied)
#whereis pwd (result: /usr/bin/pwd)
#which pwd (result: /usr/bin/pwd)
#ll -d /usr (result: drwxr-xr-x)
#ll -d /usr/bin (result: drwxr-xr-x)
#ll /usr/bin/pwd (result: r-xr-xr-x)
#alias | grep pwd (nothing)

How can I resolve the permission problem for commd "/usr/bin/pwd" ? I have no problem with other workstations.

Re: pwd : Permission Denied

Stefan Schulz — Thu, 24 May 2001 08:26:56 GMT

Interesting, as the rights to /usr/bin/pwd are ok there should be no problem.

As the ksh has a build in pwd this will always work as it should.

How about the rights of the directory you are in?

Re: pwd : Permission Denied

Paul Murray_1 — Thu, 24 May 2001 09:34:21 GMT

Although the permissions are ok, what are the ownerships ??

I've checked this on one of my 10.20 systems, and both the /usr/, /usr/bin/ directories and pwd files are owned by bin:bin.

Re: pwd : Permission Denied

Bernard Bravo — Thu, 24 May 2001 10:36:14 GMT

these usually happens when you have no execute permission on the current directory.

the shell has its own enterpreter for "pwd", there wont be any problem excuting it on currently shell.

Re: pwd : Permission Denied

Vincenzo Restuccia — Thu, 24 May 2001 11:14:22 GMT

Try chmod 777 pwd and after replace the old permission.

Re: pwd : Permission Denied

Kong Kian Chay — Fri, 25 May 2001 05:10:37 GMT

Hi
Sorry for the late response -- half day leave. Vicenzo has solved the problem --- I just simply chmod 777 /usr/bin/pwd, then chmod 555 /usr/bin/pwd, and the Problem is now SOLVED.

Thanks everybody !