Root user only

[Chris Buxton]

Check your /etc/resolv.conf. Is it readable by user, group, and others?

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On Oct 24, 2007, at 2:46 PM, Rick Knight wrote:

> I have a Slackware 9.0 box at home that acts as my router and firewall
> and mail, ftp and www server. Beyond those tasks, this box doesn't  
> do a
> whole lot and doesn't have much in the way of problems. It just works.
> Until now. This box runs as a headless server and I login via ssh  
> using
> a very non-privileged user ID. I then su to root and do whatever
> maintenance tasks I logged in to do. Now I have a need to run vnc on
> this server and access it from my work. I run vnc as a regular user  
> and
> log in as that same regular user. I have vnc configured to run the kde
> desktop and it all seems to work pretty well except that the regular
> cannot resolve hostnames. Only the root user is able to do that. I
> cannot find any sort of configuration that would allow root to resolve
> host names and disallow all other users so I assume that something is
> broken. I just don't know what. Can anyone here point me in the right
> direction?
>
> Thanks,
> Rick Knight
>
>