Re: Cannot login as non-root user

From: Alan Bort <333101@personal.net.py>
To: beolach@juno.com
Cc: Linux Newbie <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Cannot login as non-root user
Date: 15 Jul 2003 20:30:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1058315442.3629.2.camel@gandalf.ciccio-net.cjb.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030715.162201.505.419099@webmail10.lax.untd.com>

do you have execute permissions for /bin/???

drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 may 17  2002 bin

something like like that shouldbe... 

Just TOL

El mar, 15-07-2003 a las 19:21, beolach@juno.com escribió:
> On my brother's computer, running Slackware 9.0, we have just recently
> begun experiencing problems signing in as non-root users, either from
> normal login, su, su -, or ssh.  After entering username & password,
> login prints the error "Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied"
> and returns to login prompt. Su & su - from root prints the same error,
> "Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied" and returns to the root
> shell.  Ssh gives "/bin/bash: Permission denied" and connection lost.
> Root can sign in with no problems at all.
> 
> The first thing I did was check the pemissions on /bin/bash, and it
> is executable for everyone: -rwxr-xr-x.  We've also un/reinstalled
> the bash package (we've tried the bash packages from both the
> slackware-9.0 and slackware-current distributions; bash-2.05b-i386-2
> and bash-2.05b-i486-3), with no change.  I've also removed & readded
> the user accounts in /etc/passwd & /etc/shadow, both with vipw and
> userdel/useradd; again with no result.
> 
> We started experiencing this quite suddenly, while we were trying to
> get X setup with 3d acceleration for my brothers ATI Radeon 9500 Pro
> (which is still not working, anyone here have experience?), and I am
> have no idea what started the login problems, because obviously X has
> nothing to do with login, and we really weren't doing anything else.
> 
> Any help resolving this is greatly appreciated,
> Conway S. Smith
> 
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