This is off-topic from what the cooker is for, though this as well could be a
nasty bug in 7.1 somewhere.
So I set my friends box up with mdk 7.1, all is well. Everything is working
spiffy. Then later that night whilst I'm on the phone with him he can no
longer log in. He says when he logs in it logs him right back out. So I say
try logging in as root, which he can log in. Then I say hrmmmmmm type
'su normal_user -l' and he gets /bin/bash: permission denied so I then have
him check the perms on bash, and the perms are ok. So I then have him check
all the top level dir perms with 'ls -l /', and once again all is ok.
So I then ask him to do
'/bin/bash -c ls'
It works. which leaves me to believe one of a couple of things.
Improper permissions on libs.
Serious problems with PAM.
corruption(whether it be the file system or a lib).
I've ruled out the last one(courruption), but the first to are possilble, but
I still may be way off.
I had him strace 'su normal_user' -l' and send me the file.
And nothing, I can't find nothing in the trace except that it gets permission
denied on opening /bin/bash.
Any ideas or suggestions would be great. I'd hate to have to take this guy
thorugh another install, as well as I'd really like to find out where the
problem is coming from.
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Bryan Paxton
Intel: where Quality is job number 0.9998782345!
