Re: no shell, unable to cd to /home/*

2001-10-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 10:06:01PM +0200, pirmin2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Karsten M. Self wrote: Thanks for your reply, Karsten. on Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 10:56:51AM +0200, Andreas von Heydwolff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello - I upgraded potato to Debian testing (2.4.9, XFree

Re: no shell, unable to cd to /home/*

2001-10-10 Thread pirmin2
Thanks again. Karsten M. Self wrote: Does /etc/nologin exist? If so, delete it. not there but I found again that locate does not work any more. Yesterday I reinstalled findutils, ran updatedb and it worked. After today's bootup it produces again no output. You've omitted output for:

Re: no shell, unable to cd to /home/*

2001-10-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 04:43:59PM +0200, pirmin2 wrote: cedar:~# ls -ld /home lrwxrwxrwx1 root users 9 May 4 02:54 /home - /mnt/home cedar:~# ls -las /home 0 lrwxrwxrwx1 root users 9 May 4 02:54 /home - /mnt/home First off, to save karsten the trouble:

Re: no shell, unable to cd to /home/*

2001-10-10 Thread pirmin2
Hi Dave, thanks for joining in. /mnt/home is the result of wrongly thinking that I can only mount dirs in /mnt . But unmounting /dev/hda10, mounting it in /home instead, gives the same no shell output as before. For simplicity's sake I changed fstab as you suggested. ls -ld /home

Re: no shell, unable to cd to /home/*

2001-10-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 06:58:06PM +0200, pirmin2 wrote: ls -ld /home drwxrwxrwx 11 root users4096 Oct 8 23:55 /home That shouldn't be a problem, but /home is normally owned by root.staff with permissions 2775 (rwxrwsr-x). With your current permissions, anyone could create new

Re: no shell, unable to cd to /home/*

2001-10-10 Thread pirmin2
Thanks for the advice about the appropriate permissions. I followed it and - beginning in pwd /root - now get the following outputs: ls -ld /home drwxr-sr-x6 root root 4096 Oct 10 19:03 /home ls -las /home total 100 4 drwxr-sr-x6 root root 4096 Oct 10 19:03 .

Re: no shell, unable to cd to /home/*

2001-10-10 Thread Simon Law
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, pirmin2 wrote: Thanks for the advice about the appropriate permissions. I followed it and - beginning in pwd /root - now get the following outputs: ls -ld /home drwxr-sr-x6 root root 4096 Oct 10 19:03 /home ls -las /home total 100 4 drwxr-sr-x

Re: no shell, unable to cd to /home/*

2001-10-10 Thread pirmin2
it should but I'm afraid it doesn't... A. chsh avh Changing the login shell for avh Enter the new value, or press return for the default Login Shell [/bin/bash]: return su avh No shell su - avh Unable to cd to /home/avh chsh avh Changing the login shell for avh Enter the new value, or

Re: no shell, unable to cd to /home/*

2001-10-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 08:02:46PM +0200, pirmin2 wrote: ls -las /home total 100 4 drwxr-sr-x6 root root 4096 Oct 10 19:03 . 60 drw-rw 24 root root57344 Oct 10 18:46 .. Oops... Looks like I missed a big one last time... If I read the above line

Re: no shell, unable to cd to /home/*

2001-10-10 Thread Simon Law
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, pirmin2 wrote: it should but I'm afraid it doesn't... A. chsh avh Changing the login shell for avh Enter the new value, or press return for the default Login Shell [/bin/bash]: return su avh No shell su - avh Unable to cd to /home/avh chsh avh

Re: no shell, unable to cd to /home/*

2001-10-10 Thread pirmin2
Now it works. Thanks you so much, Dave and all of you who helped me trace and find the problem. Everything is accessible again: /home# ls -las total 100 4 drwxr-xr-x6 root root 4096 Oct 10 19:03 . 60 drwxr-xr-x 24 root root57344 Oct 10 18:46 .. 12 drwxrw

Re: no shell, unable to cd to /home/*

2001-10-09 Thread pirmin2
Karsten M. Self wrote: Thanks for your reply, Karsten. on Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 10:56:51AM +0200, Andreas von Heydwolff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello - I upgraded potato to Debian testing (2.4.9, XFree 4.1.0-6, old /dev structure) a few days ago, everything worked fine. Now I can no

Re: no shell, unable to cd to /home/*

2001-10-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 10:56:51AM +0200, Andreas von Heydwolff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello - I upgraded potato to Debian testing (2.4.9, XFree 4.1.0-6, old /dev structure) a few days ago, everything worked fine. Now I can no longer log in as a user but only as root. Login from the

no shell, unable to cd to /home/*

2001-10-07 Thread Andreas von Heydwolff
Hello - I upgraded potato to Debian testing (2.4.9, XFree 4.1.0-6, old /dev structure) a few days ago, everything worked fine. Now I can no longer log in as a user but only as root. Login from the console gives me Unable to cd to /home/avh, (avh is my user id) - it's the same with another