On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Joseph Mays <m...@win.net> wrote: > > Have a recently set up 9.1 RC1 system. Someone (not me, just sayin') did a > chmod 600 in the / directory. Needless to say this caused numerous problems. > I tried to change them back as best I could by comparing them to an older > directory, but some things are still not right. Trying to log in, via either > console or ssh as anyone other than root. Ssh gets: > > %ssh mays@[redacted] > Password: > Last login: Wed Nov 14 15:50:37 2012 > Could not chdir to home directory /home/mays: Permission denied > /bin/tcsh: Permission denied > Connection to [redacted] closed. > % > > followed by a disconnect. Console complains about the /home/user directory > not being there (though it is and the permissions look normal), says it's > logging in with slash instead, then says "/bin/tcsh: no such file or > directory", though /bin/tcsh is there and permissions look fine. I'm > attaching a screenshot of the message log that shows up on console logins. > > So, two questions. What is causing the problem, and does anyone have anything > that shows what the normal / directory permissions for 9.1 RC1 should look > like? > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
/home is normally a link to /usr/home lrwxr-xr-x root wheel home -> usr/home drwxr-xr-x root wheel usr is that what you have? if it was done with -R then best bet is to restore from backup. # mkdir foo # ln -s foo boo # ls -l total 2 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3 Nov 14 15:46 boo -> foo drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Nov 14 15:46 foo # chmod 600 * # ls -l total 2 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3 Nov 14 15:46 boo -> foo drw------- 2 root wheel 512 Nov 14 15:46 foo # chmod 755 * # ls -l total 2 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3 Nov 14 15:46 boo -> foo drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Nov 14 15:46 foo attachments are stripped, paste the text instead. Waitman Gobble San Jose California _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
