users cannot login anymore

[Roberto Nunnari]

in effect, trying to login as a unprivileged user gives an additional 
line.. but it doesn't give me hints..

# ssh robi at localhost
Password:
Last login: Thu Aug 30 12:12:12 2007 from ....
Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994
         The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

Could not chdir to home directory /usr/home/robi: Permission denied
/usr/local/bin/bash: Permission denied
Connection to localhost closed.

Please help!


Bahman M. wrote:
>> see below my answer.
>>
>>
>> Bahman M. wrote:
>>>> # su - robi
>>>> su: /bin/csh: Permission denied
>>>>
>>>> also,
>>>>
>>>> # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/tomcat6 start
>>>> Starting tomcat60.
>>>> su: /usr/local/bin/bash: Permission denied
>>>>
>>>> # uname -rms
>>>> FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p19 i386
>>> What's the output of
>>> # ls -l /usr/local/bin/bash
>>> # ls -l /bin/csh
>>> ?
>> # ls -l /usr/local/bin/bash /bin/csh /bin/sh
>> -r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  298556 Aug  6 18:37 /bin/csh
>> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  107380 Aug  6 18:37 /bin/sh
>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  611268 Jul  2 12:15 /usr/local/bin/bash
>>
>> # cat /etc/shells
>> /bin/sh
>> /bin/csh
>> /bin/tcsh
>> /usr/local/bin/bash
>> /usr/local/bin/rbash
> 
> Read man 1 tcsh/bash startup section and see if users other than root
> have access to all files and directories mentioned out there.
> Also try logging in as robi (on a login shell). It might give you a clue.
> 
> Bahman


-- 
Robi