On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Nico Erfurth wrote:
> After adding a user and try to su to the new user, it get this error.
> root@smtp ~# su user
> su: cannot run /bin/bash: Permission denied
Can you give a little more information, is this in a vserver or the host-
server? How did you create the vserver image and how did you start it?
> ssh user@vserver does fail too.
In what way does it fail? Has the daemon started? Does it log you into the
host-server? At what point does `ssh -v ...' fail? Does telnetting to the
port give you the OpenSSH banner? Does it fail at the network level?
> I checked the strace log of su user and found some strange things.
> setfsuid(500) = 0 <--- is this the problem?
> open("/etc/pwdb.conf", O_RDONLY) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
> readlink("/proc/self/fd/0", 0xbffff7fc, 511) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
It's not that you've set `/vservers/foo' to be chmod 000 is it?
Sorry I don't have a definite answer for you, hope this helps.
-Paul
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Nottingham, GB
