From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 17 01:08:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA01633 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 01:08:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ds9.abac.com (qmailr@ds9.abac.com [208.144.137.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA01624 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 01:08:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 29458 invoked by uid 501); 17 Jun 1997 08:08:02 -0000 Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 01:08:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryce Newall To: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Permission Denied on shell ? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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! ********************************************************************** * Bryce Newall * IRC: Data * Email: data@dal.net * * WWW: http://voyager.abac.com/data * IRC Admin, voyager.dal.net * * --== Try DALnet! Server irc.dal.net, port 7000 ==-- * * "Stop smirking, Number 1." -- J.L. Picard * * "I'm a doctor, not a doorstop!" -- EMH Program, ST:FC * **********************************************************************