From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 2 23:50:15 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AC30B4E9 for ; Sat, 2 Aug 2014 23:50:15 +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 786B12D73 for ; Sat, 2 Aug 2014 23:50:15 +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 s72NoErI004600 for ; Sat, 2 Aug 2014 18:50:14 -0500 Message-ID: <53DD7AAD.4000902@hiwaay.net> Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 18:56:29 -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: Re: permission problems w/ ordinary user .... References: <53DD742F.3020408@hiwaay.net> <20140803014039.75f4b2f9.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20140803014039.75f4b2f9.freebsd@edvax.de> 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 23:50:15 -0000 On 08/02/14 18:40, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 02 Aug 2014 18:28:47 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >> .... 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 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 think you have described the reason for the problem: > The x attribute for a directory means "enter and search" > and should be _set_ for the user. If it's not, the user > cannot enter his own home directory or access files > within it. In this case, /home/wam/.login_conf cannot > be read which seems to be neccessary for the login > process. > > You need to find that "something" that created or altered > /home/wam with the x attribute off. Login as root and > correct the setting manually, so you should be able to > login afterwards. > > This is how the resulting "ls -l /home" output it should > look like for your user: > > drwx------ [...] wam wam [...] wam/ > ^ > > (This is minimum permissions; drwxrwxr-x or drwxr-x--- > are other common examples.) > > How did you introduce the user to the system? Did you > use "adduser" or "pw add"? I used useradd as root, & the permissions were set correctly to begin with. I suspect that the failed logins are triggering the reset, but w/ little proof .... I have reset the perms as root several times during this exercise, & they keep getting unset after the login failure .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.