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DISCUSSION Stas Sergeev 1 participant 1 message Feb 23, 2006

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Hello.

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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.

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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.