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- From: chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: [SLS] Can only login as root: "shell-init - Permission denied"
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 14:29:20 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH (USA)
- Lines: 19
- Message-ID: <1hv040INN5rc@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- References: <1992Dec30.125051.269@dde.dk>
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- In article <1992Dec30.125051.269@dde.dk> mbo@dde.dk (Morten Bonde) writes:
- >After I installed the shadow-package I can't log in as other users than
- >root. All I get is:
- >
- > Welcome to Linux 0.99 <--- my /etc/motd :-)
- >
- > No mail.
- > shell-init: Permission denied
- > pwd: Permission denied
- > : Permission denied
-
- Bash can't get the current directory with getcwd. One of the parent
- directories somewhere has too-restrictive permissions.
-
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- ``The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.''
- -- Arthur Schlesinger
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- Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu
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