Re: no shell

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 06:00:47PM -0400, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote:
> I've just made a fresh install on SparcStation 5. Now I have a weird
> problem: I can't login as a user, only as root. If I try to su from the
> root to anything else, I get "No shell" error message. Strace shows that
> execve returns "Permission denied". Other operations involving exec under
> a different uid also show that, e.g. trying "man something" gives
> execv: Permission denied
> 
> Anyone else have a similar problem ? What can cause it, a bad kernel ?
> I'll try to compile a 2.2.16 and see what happens.

chmod 755 /

For some reason the root filesystem is ending up as an incorrect mode. I'm
looking into the problem now.

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