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Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 13:54:41 -0800
From: Richard Stanford <richards@herald.net>
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> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 
>    FreeBSD (karma.idirect.com) (ttyp4)
> 
> login: carrera
> Password:
> Nov 22 13:31:38 karma login: login from localhost as carrera
> Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994
>         The Regents of the University of California.   All rights
> reserved.

The fact that you got this message shows that you logged in correctly...
 
> FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE (GENERIC) #0: Wed Jul 17 03:09:31  1996
> 
> login: /usr/local/bin/tcsh: Permission denied
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> [root@karma.idirect.com]:[/root]:(1013)//>

This means just what it says, permission to execute tcsh as a user
denied.  Do an ls -al on /usr/local/bin and see what the permissions and
ownership are -- should be:

-r-xr-xr-x  1  bin  bin .... 

At least, make sure that a normal user has r-x on it.  After that, if
there are no problems logging in, check the permissions of the rest of
your system as well.

You said you were doing pwd_mkdb's -- I'd also check the user's groups,
etc (do an id as that user)... Although if the shell is 555 it shouldn't
make a difference.  Check anyway.

HTH

-Richard