Is this machine connected?
Did you compare the existing login application with the rpm database?
Did you compare it with what's in the .rpm on the installation CD?
Whenever there's a problem with login, one should be suspicious.
Regards
Gustav
David Talkington wrote:
>
> Yes, I wouldn't ordinarily leave /home wide open; I had loosened it
> deliberately while beating on this (it's late, I was frustrated =).
> I was mad enough to go nuts with chmod -R 777 willy-nilly,
> too. =)
>
> Believe me, I'm sure file perms aren't my problem. There's gotta be a
> lock file somewhere that's doing this, and I can't find it. Nothing
> unusual in /var/lock, either, btw.
>
> It's driving me batty.
>
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> 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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