users cannot login anymore

[Bahman M.]

In addition to other hints, I'd suggest you check if robi has
sufficient premissions on his own home directory.

Bahman

On 8/30/07, Roberto Nunnari <roberto.nunnari at supsi.ch> wrote:
> 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
>
>