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Date:      Tue, 2 Sep 2008 16:11:53 +0100
From:      "Barry Byrne" <barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com>
To:        "'VeeJay'" <maanjee@gmail.com>, "'FreeBSD-Questions'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: _secure_path: cannot stat /dev/null/.login_conf: Not adirectory, Any help?
Message-ID:  <00fa01c90d0e$3bbee800$72010c0a@wbt.wbtsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <2cd0a0da0809020754t58fb8da6u6e719173e3687b2@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <2cd0a0da0809020754t58fb8da6u6e719173e3687b2@mail.gmail.com>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of VeeJay
> Sent: 02 September 2008 15:54
> To: FreeBSD-Questions; VeeJay
> Subject: su: _secure_path: cannot stat /dev/null/.login_conf: 
> Not adirectory, Any help?
> 
> Hi
> 
> On the screen it says....
> 
>  su: _secure_path: cannot stat /dev/null/.login_conf: Not a directory
> 
> Any help to correct this problem?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Thanks!

You haven't said what you did, but it would look to me like you set the home
directory of a user to /dev/null and are now trying to su to that user. If
this is the case, fix the home directory to the correct path.

 - Barry







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