Re: Problem: can't log in/su with any non-root user

1999-07-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jul 25, 1999 at 03:11:40PM -0500, Brad wrote: > Now, the only question is "Which package did this?"... Back in the 1.1 or 1.2 days there was this magic bug where the permissions on /tmp would get screwed up -- they would become -rwxr-xr-x or something like that. A lot of apps don't handle

Re: Problem: can't log in/su with any non-root user

1999-07-25 Thread Brad
On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Jeremy Morgan wrote: > > What're the permissions on /? (ls -ld /) > > THANK YOU! It never even occured to me to check the permissions on /. But > when I did, I found that only root, the owner, had permission to execute. > Well I fixed that! And now everything seems to be wo

Re: Problem: can't log in/su with any non-root user

1999-07-25 Thread Jeremy Morgan
> > What're the permissions on /? (ls -ld /) > > THANK YOU! It never even occured to me to check the permissions on /. But when I did, I found that only root, the owner, had permission to execute. Well I fixed that! And now everything seems to be working. Gosh, am I glad. Again, thanks guys. Y

Re: Problem: can't log in/su with any non-root user

1999-07-25 Thread Brad
On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Jeremy Morgan wrote: > I'm not sure if this has been posted before (I've looked but can't find > anything.) I recently reinstalled debian because the only user that my > system could use was root. When I tried to su to any user except root I > would get error messages: > >

Re: Problem: can't log in/su with any non-root user

1999-07-25 Thread Jeremy Morgan
I ran potato for a long time without any problems, but I built a new computer recently so I reinstalled everything. Then the problem arised. When I couldn't fix it, I just reinstalled again--from scratch, a nice, clean hard drive. Everything was fine with my 2.1 install, but when I upgraded to po

Re: Problem: can't log in/su with any non-root user

1999-07-25 Thread egm2
Exactly how did you reinstall? Did you recreate everything, or are you trying to reuse parts of a previous installation (e.g. /home)? Many people, including me, have upgraded from Slink to Potato without such a problem. You're not trying to use passwd and group files or /home directories left ov

Re: Problem: can't log in/su with any non-root user

1999-07-25 Thread Jeremy Morgan
> > What are your permissions for /bin/login? > > -- > Andrew I've check the permissions on many files. I may've overlooked one, but here is /bin/login. -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root40432 May 31 15:01 /bin/login

RE: Problem: can't log in/su with any non-root user

1999-07-25 Thread Pollywog
> Now this creates many problems except the obvious one (I have to use root > always): no daemons or programs can run as another user--exim (mail), the > cron.daily find (nobody), or any others. Before I continue, I'll list > the > permissions of certain files: > What are your permissions for