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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: 'No shell'  error message
Keywords: su groups shell
Message-ID: <1990Jul25.235051.844@virtech.uucp>
Date: 25 Jul 90 23:50:51 GMT
References: <451@comcon.UUCP>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <451@comcon.UUCP> dvo@comcon.UUCP (Dean Olsen) writes:
>I have a problem with a machine I'm supporting.  I foolishly
>restored some accounting files into the root directory by mistake and
>now the normal users can't get into the system, they get a 'No shell'
>message before /etc/profile executes.  Users who belong to the group
>id of '0' or '1' can do everthing as normal although when I try to
>add a new user sysadm bombs with a 'No shell' at the end.

Check the mode of the following files/directories:

	/
	/bin
	/bin/sh

They should be something like:


	drwxr-xr-x  27 root     other        880 Jul 25 18:31 /
	drwxrwxr-x   2 bin      bin         2240 Jul 16 22:10 /bin
	-rwxr-xr-x   2 bin      bin        51032 Mar 23 14:31 /bin/sh

You will probably find that the problem is with /.

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