From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020721 Description of problem: "nscd start" as normal user : [peterve@limbo-pc init.d]$ ./nscd start Starting nscd: [ OK ] touch: creating `/var/lock/subsys/nscd': Toegang geweigerd Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. "nscd start" as a normal user 2. 3. Actual Results: Starting nscd: [ OK ] touch: creating `/var/lock/subsys/nscd': Toegang geweigerd Expected Results: Starting nscd: [FAILED] touch: creating `/var/lock/subsys/nscd': Toegang geweigerd Additional info: Source RPM: glibc-2.2.90-17.src.rpm
Bug still occurs in Red Hat Linux 8.0.
The nscd lock file is intentionally root only