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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Problems with su
Message-ID: <1990Feb15.051306.3431@virtech.uucp>
Date: 15 Feb 90 05:13:06 GMT
References: <19379@grebyn.com>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <19379@grebyn.com> rhodes@grebyn.com (Ned Rhodes) writes:
>exception.  I can only login as root.  Whenever I try another username,
>it gives me the initial login banner and then says "no shell".  If I log

The problem is either in the passwd file or with /bin/sh itself.

Verify that /bin/sh has a mode of at least 555 and that the 
passwd entries for whatever user's you are trying to login as are 
actually set up to run /bin/sh (or get it as the default).

This error message will also show up under some system V.3s if the login program
is not an executable file (i.e you can't have a shell command file as the
login shell).


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