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Date:      23 Nov 2002 14:36:40 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
To:        James Wu <jameswu@softhome.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "Root Directory Not Found"
Message-ID:  <443cps9iyf.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <3DDDE228.1010608@softhome.net>
References:  <3DDDE228.1010608@softhome.net>

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James Wu <jameswu@softhome.net> writes:

> Critical Question: After following a couple security guides (namely
> http://defcon1.org/html/Security/Secure-Guide/secure-guide.html
> http://draenor.org/securebsd/secure.txt
> http://sddi.net/FBSDSecCheckList.html
> http://people.freebsd.org/~jkb/howto.html), I believe I have locked
> out all my non-root accounts. Whenever I try to login, it spews back
> 
> Root Directory Not Found
> 
> and after 2-3 seconds restarts the login. Can anyone give me a pointer
> to what config file did this?

Probably a missing home directory.  Check on that.

> None-critical Side Question: I looked around for the smallest shell
> possible to run my chat clients from (X is far too much for my system
> to handle) and "cat /usr/ports/shells/*/pkg-descr | grep small"
> returned me esh. However when I change the shell to esh the shell puts
> out a "$" and immediately terminates. Searching for documentation for
> esh on google proved to be a failure, so does anyone know how to
> configure esh to "stay" after it starts up?

esh isn't what you want.  Unless you are a LISP fan.

/bin/sh is probably appropriate...

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