Re: no shell, unable to cd to /home/*

[Simon Law <sfllaw@engmail.uwaterloo.ca>]

On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, pirmin2 wrote:

> Thanks for the advice about the appropriate permissions. I followed it 
> and - beginning in pwd /root - now get the following outputs:
> 
> ls -ld /home
> drwxr-sr-x    6 root     root         4096 Oct 10 19:03 /home
> 
> ls -las /home
> total 100
>    4 drwxr-sr-x    6 root     root         4096 Oct 10 19:03 .
>   60 drw-rw----   24 root     root        57344 Oct 10 18:46 ..
>   12 drwxr-sr-x   77 avh      avh         12288 Oct  7 03:05 avh
>   16 drwxr-sr-x    2 root     root        16384 May  4 02:23 lost+found
>    4 drwxr-sr-x    2 mcr      mcr          4096 Oct  6 23:52 mcr
>    4 drwxr-sr-x    4 avh      users        4096 Sep  2 21:44 pool
> 
> su avh
> No shell
> 
> su - avh
> Unable to cd to "/home/avh"
> 
> Shall I send strace output again?
> 
> Andreas

	Do a 'chsh avh' and give yourself a shell, such as /bin/bash.
It should work from there on.

Simon