> 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.
Check the permissions of / and /bin. These might be set to 700. Could also be an issue with library permissions (see this: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue52/okopnik.html) Puneet - 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
