'No shell' error message
Conor P. Cahill
cpcahil at virtech.uucp
Thu Jul 26 09:50:51 AEST 1990
In article <451 at comcon.UUCP> dvo at comcon.UUCP (Dean Olsen) writes:
>I have a problem with a machine I'm supporting. I foolishly
>restored some accounting files into the root directory by mistake and
>now the normal users can't get into the system, they get a 'No shell'
>message before /etc/profile executes. Users who belong to the group
>id of '0' or '1' can do everthing as normal although when I try to
>add a new user sysadm bombs with a 'No shell' at the end.
Check the mode of the following files/directories:
/
/bin
/bin/sh
They should be something like:
drwxr-xr-x 27 root other 880 Jul 25 18:31 /
drwxrwxr-x 2 bin bin 2240 Jul 16 22:10 /bin
-rwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 51032 Mar 23 14:31 /bin/sh
You will probably find that the problem is with /.
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