From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 14 22:22:14 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 799F757C for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:22:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mays@win.net) Received: from filter2.win.net (filter2.win.net [216.24.27.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 256F18FC12 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:22:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nb-208.win.net (nb-208.win.net [216.24.27.208]) by filter2.win.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id qAEMD0RX011542 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:13:00 -0500 Received: from win2snvu0x4eg9 (pool207.office.win.net [216.24.33.207]) by nb-208.win.net (Postfix) with SMTP id B026F73127 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:13:00 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <816E535579724567A55D3EC28633CED6@win2snvu0x4eg9> From: "Joseph Mays" To: Subject: 9.1 permissions in the / directory Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:12:59 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0: No Bayes scoring rules defined, tokens from: WinNetOutbound) X-Spam-Score: 2.10 (**) [Hold at 4.50] STOX_REPLY_TYPE, STOX_REPLY_TYPE_WITHOUT_QUOTES X-CanIt-Geo: ip=216.24.27.208; country=US; region=KY; city=Finchville; postalcode=40022; latitude=38.1551; longitude=-85.3280; metrocode=529; areacode=502; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=38.1551,-85.3280&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: base:WinNetOutbound X-Canit-Stats-ID: 01Inyd0rP - 729ec297c252 - 20121114 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 216.24.27.102 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 22:22:14 -0000 Have a recently set up 9.1 RC1 system. Someone (not me, just sayin') did a chmod 600 in the / directory. Needless to say this caused numerous problems. I tried to change them back as best I could by comparing them to an older directory, but some things are still not right. Trying to log in, via either console or ssh as anyone other than root. Ssh gets: %ssh mays@[redacted] Password: Last login: Wed Nov 14 15:50:37 2012 Could not chdir to home directory /home/mays: Permission denied /bin/tcsh: Permission denied Connection to [redacted] closed. % followed by a disconnect. Console complains about the /home/user directory not being there (though it is and the permissions look normal), says it's logging in with slash instead, then says "/bin/tcsh: no such file or directory", though /bin/tcsh is there and permissions look fine. I'm attaching a screenshot of the message log that shows up on console logins. So, two questions. What is causing the problem, and does anyone have anything that shows what the normal / directory permissions for 9.1 RC1 should look like?