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Subject: Re: Permission Denied on shell ?
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From: "Bryan K. Ogawa" <bkogawa@primenet.com>
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In localhost.freebsd.questions you write:

>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. :)

>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!

You may need to add the shell to /etc/shells , the list of acceptable
shells.  I think this is the message that you get if you have an
illegal shell and you try to log in.

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bryan k ogawa  <bkogawa@primenet.com>   http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/