At 02:48 AM 4/27/00 -0500, you wrote:
>
>RH6.0 dialup gateway server, all security updates. Very strange
>issue, in which logins to all accounts except root fail with the
>following: "no directory /home/user". Permissions are fine on all
>home directories. Tried creating a new user, and that user got the
>same results. Tried editing /etc/passwd to change the home dirs,
>nothing worked. Only root can log in, and only to the console. Do
>"su - user", to any user, shell tells me it's unable to run /bin/bash,
>permission denied.
>
>I found a reference to /etc/no_login in an old archived post, but
>there was no such file on my system. Authentication clearly isn't the
>problem. Syslog shows successful logins each time I try to log
>in. But it appears that no user except root has any permissions
>anywhere on the system.
>
>All I've done recently is set up an .rhosts for a non-privileged user
>to connect from a single private IP, and use that account to copy some
>backups onto the problem machine to a subdirectory of the
>user's home. What on earth got hosed?
>
Check the permissions on /home itself, as well as on /bin/bash.
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Feb 1 09:39 home
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 373176 Apr 6 1999 /bin/bash
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