On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, pirmin2 wrote: > Thanks for the advice about the appropriate permissions. I followed it > and - beginning in pwd /root - now get the following outputs: > > ls -ld /home > drwxr-sr-x 6 root root 4096 Oct 10 19:03 /home > > ls -las /home > total 100 > 4 drwxr-sr-x 6 root root 4096 Oct 10 19:03 . > 60 drw-rw---- 24 root root 57344 Oct 10 18:46 .. > 12 drwxr-sr-x 77 avh avh 12288 Oct 7 03:05 avh > 16 drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 16384 May 4 02:23 lost+found > 4 drwxr-sr-x 2 mcr mcr 4096 Oct 6 23:52 mcr > 4 drwxr-sr-x 4 avh users 4096 Sep 2 21:44 pool > > su avh > No shell > > su - avh > Unable to cd to "/home/avh" > > Shall I send strace output again? > > Andreas
Do a 'chsh avh' and give yourself a shell, such as /bin/bash. It should work from there on. Simon