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- From: bribbeck@exucom.com (Bob Ribbeck)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: HELP: shell-init: Permission denied
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.005710.4497@exucom.com>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 00:57:10 GMT
- References: <1jdtqaINN73r@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>
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- James Michael Chacon (probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu) wrote:
- : billj@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Bill Jones) writes:
-
- : >I am not sure what happened, but I am now having a problem when logging
- : >in as any user other than root. The symptoms are as follows:
-
- : >login: user1
- : >password:
- : >shell-init: Permission denied
- : >: Permission denied
- : >pwd: Permission denied
- : >: Permission denied
- : >musicman:> dir <------ my prompt (missing the pwd)
- : >[ usual directory listing ]
- : >: Permission denied
- : >: Permission denied
- : >: Permission denied
-
- : >bill jones
-
- : Somewhere along the directory tree to get to your home directory the execute
- : flag didn't get set.
-
- : Look all along the tree up to your home directory, and make sure they are all
- : at least executable by all. Readable sure help to though.
-
- : James
-
- I don't know what is causing this problem but if you do a "chmod 755 /" this
- will fix the problem. "ls -ld should show why but it didn't explain it for me.
- But as Gary Phiefer suggested to me this fixes the problem
-