Root user only

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Rick Knight wrote:

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> 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?

Show us some command line examples.

My first guess is that your /etc/resolv.conf is not readable by the user.

 ls -l /etc/resolv.conf

  Jeremy C. Reed