From: Lieberg, Patrick (plieberg@EV3.NET)
Date: Thu Oct 23 2003 - 12:42:46 EDT
I would assume the /etc/hosts file to have permissions of: -rw-rw-r--
That way everyone has permissions to read the file.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Bramblett [mailto:bramblet@FULLER.COM]
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 11:22 AM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: host file / DNS not working right on 4.3.3
what should they be.
on /etc/hosts it is -rw-r-----
on /etc/ it is drwxr-xr-x
I think you are right on target. Thanks
Holger.VanKoll@SWISSCOM.COM wrote:
> As root I could ftp to another machine using.
> ftp Name_of_Machine
>
> but as myself or one of the programmers I could only do this to make it
> work.
> ftp 172.x.x.x
>
>
>
> check permissions on /etc and /etc/hosts
>
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