On my brother's computer, running Slackware 9.0, we have just recently begun experiencing problems signing in as non-root users, either from normal login, su, su -, or ssh. After entering username & password, login prints the error "Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied" and returns to login prompt. Su & su - from root prints the same error, "Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied" and returns to the root shell. Ssh gives "/bin/bash: Permission denied" and connection lost. Root can sign in with no problems at all.
The first thing I did was check the pemissions on /bin/bash, and it is executable for everyone: -rwxr-xr-x. We've also un/reinstalled the bash package (we've tried the bash packages from both the slackware-9.0 and slackware-current distributions; bash-2.05b-i386-2 and bash-2.05b-i486-3), with no change. I've also removed & readded the user accounts in /etc/passwd & /etc/shadow, both with vipw and userdel/useradd; again with no result. We started experiencing this quite suddenly, while we were trying to get X setup with 3d acceleration for my brothers ATI Radeon 9500 Pro (which is still not working, anyone here have experience?), and I am have no idea what started the login problems, because obviously X has nothing to do with login, and we really weren't doing anything else. Any help resolving this is greatly appreciated, Conway S. Smith ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
