From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 19 18:17:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA11561 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 18:17:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA11556 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 1997 18:16:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from localhost (kpielorz@localhost) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA01214 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 01:56:36 GMT Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 01:56:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Karl Pielorz To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Annoying Problem with 'su' and user account... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi all, Two of my FreeBSD 2.2.2-Release machines seem to have inherited this problem recently... (well, very similar)... On the first machine if I log in as root on for example the console - then try to su to my user account (to send mail etc.) I get... _su: Permission denied _su: Trying to start from "/raid/users/kpielorz" But the command does complete OK, if I then 'exit' - and do the su again - it completes without any errors... I've made sure everything I can think of permissions wise is OK, e.g. /raid drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 512 Dec 19 14:10 raid /raid/users drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 512 Nov 24 16:31 users /raid/users/kpielorz drwx------ 13 kpielorz staff 1024 Dec 20 01:50 kpielorz I own all the files in my homedir, there all at least rw- by me but still I get the errors... On another 2.2.2-RELEASE machine I get: _su: Permission denied _su: Trying to start from "/" Whenever the machines runs the 'weekly' script (/etc/weekly) - from the crontab... I have no doubt this is something really stupid I've done - can anyone suggest where to look next? (I've looked up the respective man pages etc ;-) Regards, Karl Pielorz