Ap: Unable to locate Photon

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Using 6.3 on X86.

I’ve booted up in text mode, logged on and loaded photon.
I open a pterm and try to log in as a different user. This works.
But . . . if I try to run any photon (E.G. /usr/photon/bin/pfm) program I get:
Ap: Unable to locate Photon

How can I correct this?

This never happened with 6.2.x.

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Bill Caroselli wrote:

Using 6.3 on X86.

I’ve booted up in text mode, logged on and loaded photon.
I open a pterm and try to log in as a different user. This works.
But . . . if I try to run any photon (E.G. /usr/photon/bin/pfm) program I get:
Ap: Unable to locate Photon

How can I correct this?

chmod go+rw $PHOTON

This never happened with 6.2.x.

No, the 6.2 Photon didn’t support chmod and allowed anybody to connect.
This security hole is fixed in 6.3, and Photon resets its permission
bits to 0600 every time before launching phlogin.

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Wojtek Lerch <Wojtek_L@yahoo.ca> wrote:
WL > Bill Caroselli wrote:

Using 6.3 on X86.

I’ve booted up in text mode, logged on and loaded photon.
I open a pterm and try to log in as a different user. This works.
But . . . if I try to run any photon (E.G. /usr/photon/bin/pfm) program I get:
Ap: Unable to locate Photon

How can I correct this?

WL > chmod go+rw $PHOTON

This never happened with 6.2.x.

WL > No, the 6.2 Photon didn’t support chmod and allowed anybody to connect.
WL > This security hole is fixed in 6.3, and Photon resets its permission
WL > bits to 0600 every time before launching phlogin.

I understand. And it makes perfect sence.

Thanks