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Re: adduser??



Ralph Winslow:
> Having used adduser to add me as a user to my system, when I
> try to login, I get the message:
> 
> ksh: Cannot determine current working directory
> 
> I do get a $ prompt, and when I cd /home/rjw; ls -l, I see my directory
> and it's content (largely stuff placed there by me as root).  I've
> logged in to X and run netscape to send this message (netscape saw that
> /home/rjw/nsmail didn't exist, and asked if I'd like to create it; I
> said yes, and it did).  I only tried to set myself up as a user when
> mail I sent to this list as root had a problem, BTW.
> 
> Anyway, if anyone can help with what I need to do to solve this, I'd be
> grateful - I've already tried various protection modes for /home and
> /home/rjw, but perhaps I haven't hit the right combo.

I might be completly off base here, but I think I saw someone report this
once and it turned out they had bad permissions on /

-- 
See shy Jo.


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