(Answer) (Category) SCO UnixWare 7/OpenUNIX 8/OpenServer 6 FAQ : (Category) General Information :
Why am I suddenly getting not privileged or no permissions errors?
When something drastic occurs, such as the restoring of critical files, the securities privilege database can get corrupted. Symptoms could be that a user tries to ping and they will see:
      UX:ping: ERROR: socket: permission denied

   Check it with:

       initprivs
  or
       /sbin/initprivs

   If running that returns anything at all, then fix it immediately with

       /etc/security/tools/setpriv -x

   Other times the user may simply not have the privliges to access a proteced
   command.  Check the filepriv and setpriv man pages for more information.
   All users can't traceroute for instance, and that is by default.

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