From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 3 3:36:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pluto.cc.emory.edu (pluto.cc.emory.edu [170.140.1.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7312437B40C for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 03:36:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gpagnon@emory.edu) Received: from 192 (anx56-75.dialup.emory.edu [170.140.251.75]) by pluto.cc.emory.edu (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f63AZxC14327; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 06:35:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200107031035.f63AZxC14327@pluto.cc.emory.edu> Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 06:40:05 -0400 To: Brian Cc: stable@freebsd.org From: Giuseppe Pagnoni Subject: Re: after upgrading to 4.3 can't su anymore Organization: Emory X-Mailer: Opera 5.12 build 932 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes! the problem was that my older tcsh was in /usr/local/bin but it was referenced in the /etc/shells as /bin/tcsh. thanks!! giuseppe 7/2/01 8:03:53 PM, Brian wrote: > >you may check the path for tcsh in /etc/shells, I had a >similar problem while upgrading. tcsh became part of the base >system between 4.0 and stable. you may also want to check /etc/passwd >for the wrong path. I can't remember what I had a problem with but I >do remember I had to change the paths from /usr/local/bin/tcsh to >/bin/tcsh in /etc/passwd. I think what I did to cause the problem is >when I ran mergmaster I replaced /etc/shells which did not have the >path /usr/local/bin/tcsh which was used in /etc/passwd. > >Hope this helps, > >brian > >On Mon, 02 Jul 2001 19:17:58 -0400 >Giuseppe Pagnoni wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I have just upgraded my box to 4-stable from 4.0 (from src) and though >> everything seem to have gone well, I cannot su anymore though I am still >> >> in the wheel group (as from the /etc/group file). The error message is: >> >> su: permission denied (shell). >> >> (by the way my shell is tcsh...) >> >> And also, another unrelated question. When I do telnet now it appears >> the following message: >> Trying SRA secure login >> >> what does it mean? Is this useful? >> >> thanks for any suggestion! >> >> giuseppe >> >> >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message >> > > >-- > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message