From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 12 12:20:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (tnt1-132.quicksilver.net.nz [202.89.142.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4683937B405 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 12:20:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by chen.org.nz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0CKN1301519; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 09:23:01 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 09:23:00 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Colin Harford Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cannot find root directory Message-ID: <20020113092300.C1200@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from colin.harford@mail.su.ualberta.ca on Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 02:24:23AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "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