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monkeyBox
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 Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 3:53 am Post subject: A Mystery: Can't login as normal user [SOLVED] |
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Ok, here's the deal. I'm working on my laptop (It's about 3.5 yrs old), and all of the sudden I can't write to my home dir. I Log out of X and I have a login prompt on the cmd line. When I log in as myself (bdavis) I get the error: | Code: | | No directory: /home/bdavis |
So, I login as root. That works fine. I tried this: and get: | Code: | | Unable to cd to "/home/bdavis" |
Then I try and get | Code: | | Cannot execute /bin/bash: permission denied |
So what the heck? I checked permissions on everything and nothing has changed. My home dir exists and has the correct permissions. I even changed my home dir and /bin/bash to 777 permissions. I even tried creating a new user from scratch and got the same results. Here's the real kicker. This same thing happened a month ago, and I ended up re-installing gentoo. Why would it happen again just out of the blue like that?
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 11:05 am Post subject: |
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monkeyBox,
Have you got a pam upgrade and not done etc-update ?
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monkeyBox
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| Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah, I already tried re-emerging PAM. (and running etc-update) That didn't help. |
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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monkeyBox,
Is /bin/bash listed as a permissible login shell in /etc/shells ?
Has /etc/shells got wiped even ?
Mine says | Code: | # /etc/shells: valid login shells
/bin/sh
/bin/bash
/bin/tcsh
/bin/csh
/bin/esh
/bin/ksh
/bin/zsh
/bin/sash |
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monkeyBox
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| Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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| nope, /etc/shells is still there, and has /bin/bash in it. (looks exactly like what you posted above). |
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monkeyBox
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| Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 4:58 am Post subject: |
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I figured it out! That is, with a little help from my friend (GIYF). My problem wasn't the same problem as that guy's, although one of the things he said was to check that the user had read and execute permissions on / (root). I did a quick and voila! I can login as my normal user again! I have NO idea how permissions on / got changed, but oh well. At least I know how to fix it next time it happens 
I did, however, encounter another problem, which I was quickly able to fix. When I started X, I got an error that said (in my .xsession-errors file): | Code: | | mkdtemp: private socket dir:Permission denied |
I found out that I also didn't have write permissions on /tmp either. How the heck that happened, I don't know either. But as soon as I fixed the permissions (and cleared out /tmp and rebooted for good luck), I was smooth sailing once again. |
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KB7OEB
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| Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 4:46 am Post subject: |
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| I just had this happen to me, I could not figure it out because I could log in as root and myself but no other users can. I didn't know you could set permissions on /, how do you list /? ls / just shows whats in / |
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hjnenc
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| Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 7:04 am Post subject: |
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| KB7OEB wrote: | | I just had this happen to me, I could not figure it out because I could log in as root and myself but no other users can. I didn't know you could set permissions on /, how do you list /? ls / just shows whats in / |
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KB7OEB
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| Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 2:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks! |
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