777 and 755, respectively.

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:

:At 02:48 AM 4/27/00 -0500, you wrote:
:>
:>RH6.0 dialup gateway server, all security updates.  Very strange
:>issue, in which logins to all accounts except root fail with the
:>following: "no directory /home/user".  Permissions are fine on all
:>home directories.  Tried creating a new user, and that user got the
:>same results.  Tried editing /etc/passwd to change the home dirs,
:>nothing worked.  Only root can log in, and only to the console.  Do
:>"su - user", to any user, shell tells me it's unable to run /bin/bash,
:>permission denied.
:>
:>I found a reference to /etc/no_login in an old archived post, but
:>there was no such file on my system.  Authentication clearly isn't the
:>problem.  Syslog shows successful logins each time I try to log
:>in.  But it appears that no user except root has any permissions
:>anywhere on the system.
:>
:>All I've done recently is set up an .rhosts for a non-privileged user
:>to connect from a single private IP, and use that account to copy some
:>backups onto the problem machine to a subdirectory of the
:>user's home.  What on earth got hosed?
:>
:Check the permissions on /home itself, as well as on /bin/bash.
:
:drwxr-xr-x   4 root     root         1024 Feb  1 09:39 home
:
:-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       373176 Apr  6  1999 /bin/bash
:
:
:
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