From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stas Sergeev Subject: Re: Illegal user Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:39:35 +0300 Message-ID: <43FD90E7.1010401@aknet.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org Hello. Brian Hancock wrote: > server... In trying to sort out the "Illegal User" message, I asked > their support to try and run DOSEMU as root which they did and got a The thing is that you are not supposed to run dosemu as root, as this is a serious security threat. Even though you haven't run my test program, I suspect that the problem was that /etc/passwd wasn't readable for the user, and when you started dosemu as root, it was able to read /etc/passwd. Normally /etc/passwd is readable for the users, so dosemu can run. > Sorry to send you out chasing a red herring... I don't think so, dosemu is not supposed to require root to run. As for the 64bit CPU - yes, switching to the 32bit one is the solution for now.