On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Jeremy Morgan wrote: > I'm not sure if this has been posted before (I've looked but can't find > anything.) I recently reinstalled debian because the only user that my > system could use was root. When I tried to su to any user except root I > would get error messages: > > su: cannot run /bin/bash: Permission denied > > When I tried to login as another user: > > Unable to cd to "/home/porp" > > Now this creates many problems except the obvious one (I have to use root > always): no daemons or programs can run as another user--exim (mail), the > cron.daily find (nobody), or any others. Before I continue, I'll list the > permissions of certain files: > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 364336 Jul 25 02:45 /bin/bash > -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 9512 Jun 2 09:59 /bin/su > > drwxr-sr-x 2 porp porp 1024 Jul 24 14:49 porp > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Jul 25 02:39 bin > drwxrwsr-x 4 root staff 1024 Jul 24 22:14 home
What're the permissions on /? (ls -ld /)