Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 09:23:00 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Colin Harford <colin.harford@mail.su.ualberta.ca> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cannot find root directory Message-ID: <20020113092300.C1200@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <B8654ED7.1795%colin.harford@mail.su.ualberta.ca>; from colin.harford@mail.su.ualberta.ca on Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 02:24:23AM -0700 References: <B8654ED7.1795%colin.harford@mail.su.ualberta.ca>
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On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 02:24:23AM -0700, Colin Harford wrote: > So, for whatever reason, all of a sudden, out of the blue I am unable to > login from any account other than root. I keep getting the error message > when I go to login that: Cannot find root directory. > > If I login as root, and try to su to another user, I get > /usr/local/bin/bash: Permission denied. Check the permissions on the root directory, all the way down to the standard users home directoriesy. Sounds like they've been changed to restrict everyone. -- Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted." -- Thomas B. Reed To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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