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Re: adduser??



Joey Hess wrote:
> 
> 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
> >
<snip>
> 
> 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 /

No, you're right on the money, I did a  "chmod a+r /" and all was well.
I'd mistakenly thought that the x permissions on / were adequate.
> 
> --
> See shy Jo.

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