Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 18:56:29 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: permission problems w/ ordinary user .... Message-ID: <53DD7AAD.4000902@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <20140803014039.75f4b2f9.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <53DD742F.3020408@hiwaay.net> <20140803014039.75f4b2f9.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 08/02/14 18:40, Polytropon wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Aug 2014 18:28:47 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>> .... I have been trying to setup the regular user (me, non-root) on my
>> newly minted FreeBSD 9.3 box. I tried su-ing from tooy & ssh-ing in as
>> me from another box, both give weird results, see the following from my
>> syslog:
>>
>> [...]
>> Aug 2 18:23:01 kabini1 sshd[1252]: _secure_path: cannot stat
>> /home/wam/.login_conf: Permission denied
>>
>>
>> also, the home-directory keeps getting the 'x' permission bit set to off
>> by .... something ....
> I think you have described the reason for the problem:
> The x attribute for a directory means "enter and search"
> and should be _set_ for the user. If it's not, the user
> cannot enter his own home directory or access files
> within it. In this case, /home/wam/.login_conf cannot
> be read which seems to be neccessary for the login
> process.
>
> You need to find that "something" that created or altered
> /home/wam with the x attribute off. Login as root and
> correct the setting manually, so you should be able to
> login afterwards.
>
> This is how the resulting "ls -l /home" output it should
> look like for your user:
>
> drwx------ [...] wam wam [...] wam/
> ^
>
> (This is minimum permissions; drwxrwxr-x or drwxr-x---
> are other common examples.)
>
> How did you introduce the user to the system? Did you
> use "adduser" or "pw add"?
I used useradd as root, & the permissions were set correctly to begin
with. I suspect that the failed logins are triggering the reset, but w/
little proof .... I have reset the perms as root several times during
this exercise, & they keep getting unset after the login failure ....
--
William A. Mahaffey III
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