From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 2 23:22:33 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D2253EEF for ; Sat, 2 Aug 2014 23:22:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 86EC02A8F for ; Sat, 2 Aug 2014 23:22:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (rbn1-216-180-19-118.adsl.hiwaay.net [216.180.19.118]) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id s72NMWFj023334 for ; Sat, 2 Aug 2014 18:22:32 -0500 Message-ID: <53DD742F.3020408@hiwaay.net> Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 18:28:47 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" Subject: permission problems w/ ordinary user .... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 23:22:33 -0000 .... I have been trying to setup the regular user (me, non-root) on my newly minted FreeBSD 9.3 box. I tried su-ing from tooy & ssh-ing in as me from another box, both give weird results, see the following from my syslog: Aug 2 17:59:03 kabini1 ntpd[676]: ntpd 4.2.4p5-a (1) Aug 2 17:59:03 kabini1 kernel: . Aug 2 18:02:16 kabini1 ntpd[677]: time reset -0.337616 s Aug 2 18:17:11 kabini1 su: _secure_path: cannot stat /home/wam/.login_conf: Permission denied Aug 2 18:17:11 kabini1 su: _secure_path: cannot stat /home/wam/.login_conf: Permission denied Aug 2 18:21:21 kabini1 sshd[1214]: _secure_path: cannot stat /home/wam/.login_conf: Permission denied Aug 2 18:21:21 kabini1 sshd[1214]: _secure_path: cannot stat /home/wam/.login_conf: Permission denied Aug 2 18:21:21 kabini1 sshd[1215]: _secure_path: cannot stat /home/wam/.login_conf: Permission denied Aug 2 18:23:01 kabini1 sshd[1251]: _secure_path: cannot stat /home/wam/.login_conf: Permission denied Aug 2 18:23:01 kabini1 sshd[1251]: _secure_path: cannot stat /home/wam/.login_conf: Permission denied Aug 2 18:23:01 kabini1 sshd[1252]: _secure_path: cannot stat /home/wam/.login_conf: Permission denied also, the home-directory keeps getting the 'x' permission bit set to off by .... something .... I can ssh in as root no sweat, but problems as regular user .... more pilot error, I suspect :-/ ... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.