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Date:      Sat, 21 Jun 2003 08:56:55 +0200
From:      Uwe Doering <gemini@geminix.org>
To:        llx <llx@hispeed.ch>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: su: no directory
Message-ID:  <3EF401B7.70201@geminix.org>
In-Reply-To: <200306202345.13435.llx@hispeed.ch>
References:  <200306202345.13435.llx@hispeed.ch>

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Hi,

llx wrote:
> hi
> 
> i've got the the problem that i can't su -l <someone> an my client machine.
>    $ su -l admin
>    su: no directory
> i can login locally, login via ssh, su -l root without any problems. 
> [...]
> $ ls -l /usr/home/admin
> total 11
> drwxrwx---  17 admin   core    1024 Jun 20 17:56 admin

Is the missing 'd' option in the command above just a typo in your 
email, or do you really have an 'admin' directory in the 'admin' home 
directory?  What does

   ls -ld /usr/home/admin

say, especially with regard to permissions?

    Uwe
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