Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 01:08:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryce Newall <data@ds9.abac.com> To: FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Permission Denied on shell ? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970617010315.28966H-100000@ds9.abac.com>
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There's probably a real simple answer to this that'll make me feel real
stupid, but since I'm writing this at 1:05 am, I have an excuse. :)
I set up a "guest" login on my machine, with no password, to allow people
to telnet in and apply for an account. The passwd entry looks like this:
guest:*:1005:31::/home/guest:/home/guest/question
In master.passwd, the password is blank, so the person never actually gets
prompted for one. /home/guest looks like this:
[81]root@voyager:/home/guest # ls
total 9
-rw------- 1 guest guest 101 Jan 15 23:36 .Xauthority
-rw-r--r-- 1 guest guest 5 Jun 17 00:55 .qmail
-rwx------ 1 guest guest 5261 Dec 10 1996 question*
-rwx--x--x 1 guest guest 594 Jun 11 1996 question.gone*
For some reason, though, when I try to telnet in, I get this:
[82]root@voyager:/home/guest # telnet voyager
Trying 208.137.248.5...
Connected to voyager.abac.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
FreeBSD (voyager.abac.com) (ttyp0)
login: guest
Last login: Tue Jun 17 01:01:03 from voyager
Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE (VOYAGER) #0: Sat May 24 22:47:12 PDT 1997
login: /home/guest/question: Permission denied
Connection closed by foreign host.
I've tried setting /home/guest/question's modes to 700 (as seen in the
above illustration), 711, 755, and even 777, all to no avail (I get the
same message). Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Thanks!
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