Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 10:30:54 +0100 From: "Steehouder, R.J." <r.j.steehouder@kpn.com> To: "'isetr0@sevicron.com'" <isetr0@sevicron.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: su: no directory Message-ID: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E45220369D30F@l04.research.kpn.com>
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> To add on to this a little more:
> This is FreeBSD 4.1.1-STALBE: Sun Oct 15 18:56:42 EDT 2000
>
> If I do su user instead of su - user, the error is:
> su: /bin/tcsh: Permission denied.
>
> # ls -alF /bin/tcsh
> - -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 625168 Oct 15 18:39 /bin/tcsh*
>
> Looks ok to me
>
> # ls -alF / | grep bin
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1024 Oct 15 18:39 bin/
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2048 Oct 15 18:43 sbin/
>
> No problems there?
>
> I also noticed an interesting file in /bin, it is [ - yes, just a
> square left bracket.
> # file /bin/\[
> /bin/[: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD),
> statically linked, stripped
>
> I have NO clue what that is...Some readable text in it is: $FreeBSD:
> src/lib/libc/i386/
> string/strcmp.S,v 1.5 1999/08/27 23:59:33 peter Exp $ as well as a
> bunch of other junk.
If you look at the i-nodes, you'll see it is the same as `test',
see `man test'. (`man [' should work as well)
> I'm lost - creating new users doesn't do anything either - I've looked
> this up in newsgroups and such, but haven't found much info towards a
> solution...
> On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 05:27:15PM -0500, Isetr0 Savi wrote:
> > Oh boy,
> >
> > I was making an attempt to secure my files a little bit today. I set
> > the default umask to 027 and did some chmod -R o-rwx * in my home
> > directory are among what I recall doing. However - I have a couple
> > user accounts I use, and I tried to su to one of them, and it failed
> > with the following error:
> > su: no directory
> >
> > If I try to ssh in with the specified account, I get disconnected with
> > "Connot find root directory". I don't know if this means it can't
> > find /home/user or if it can't find / in general??
> > The home dirs have permissions 750 and are owned by the proper owners.
> > I can log in fine as root and the user I was making the modifications
> > as, but not as two other users. Everything seems to be fine -
> > /etc/passwd has no problems, the home directories are there..I can't
> > figure out what the problem is. Any suggestions? Thanks for any
> > help...
> >
> > Isetr0
> >
> > p.s. There are no errors in /var/log/messages, or /var/log/auth.log -
> > I can authenticate just fine, but then it kicks me out - perhaps I set
> > some permissions incorrectly somewhere...What perms should /usr/home
> > have? I've tried ith 755 and 750 - no luck.
Wat permissions does `/' have?
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