On Sun, 11 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Twaddle. I would be willing to bet a nickle ($US.05) that someone with
> root privilege has done chmod -R a-x /home, and you are getting, for
> users trying to log in,
>
> Unable to cd to /home/<user>
>
> and for root trying to su to <user>:
>
> bash: /home/<user>/.bashrc: Permission denied
>
> Note that the prompt does not now end in #, and you are now that user,
> but you don't have its environment. You will be root again when you
> exit.
>
> If this is the case, you can undo the damage he has done with:
>
> chmod -R a+x /home
>
> well, that is a little crude. It gives execute permissions to all files
> and directories in /home. Maybe
>
> find /home -type d -maxdepth 1 -exec chmod a+x {} \;
>
> would be a better way to start repairing it. Also change the root
> password to something hard to guess. :-) buddhu was hard enough in the
> USA in 1980, but I wouldn't use it today. I might have misspelled it,
> or perhaps used the wrong language. 1980 ia a long time ago.
>
> Regards,
>
> Lawson
Well , it seems that isin't that easy . We've already tried it but the
problem continues unabated... Also the message "Cannot run /bin/bash" has
nothing to do with it!
-V.Vasant
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