From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 23 11:36:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8686237B401 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 11:36:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D04B143E88 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 11:36:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com[24.147.188.198]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01) with ESMTP id <20021123193642001004nuhie>; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 19:36:42 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gANJafcB006215; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 14:36:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gANJaePc006212; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 14:36:40 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: James Wu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Root Directory Not Found" References: <3DDDE228.1010608@softhome.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 23 Nov 2002 14:36:40 -0500 In-Reply-To: <3DDDE228.1010608@softhome.net> Message-ID: <443cps9iyf.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG James Wu writes: > Critical Question: After following a couple security guides (namely > http://defcon1.org/html/Security/Secure-Guide/secure-guide.html > http://draenor.org/securebsd/secure.txt > http://sddi.net/FBSDSecCheckList.html > http://people.freebsd.org/~jkb/howto.html), I believe I have locked > out all my non-root accounts. Whenever I try to login, it spews back > > Root Directory Not Found > > and after 2-3 seconds restarts the login. Can anyone give me a pointer > to what config file did this? Probably a missing home directory. Check on that. > None-critical Side Question: I looked around for the smallest shell > possible to run my chat clients from (X is far too much for my system > to handle) and "cat /usr/ports/shells/*/pkg-descr | grep small" > returned me esh. However when I change the shell to esh the shell puts > out a "$" and immediately terminates. Searching for documentation for > esh on google proved to be a failure, so does anyone know how to > configure esh to "stay" after it starts up? esh isn't what you want. Unless you are a LISP fan. /bin/sh is probably appropriate... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message