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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!destroyer!news.itd.umich.edu!altitude From: altitude@css.itd.umich.edu (Alex Tang) Newsgroups: umich.unix,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: HELP!!!! (permissions and such Messed) Date: 11 Dec 1993 23:11:56 GMT Organization: University of Michigan ITD/User Services Lines: 36 Message-ID: <2edk3s$r7b@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Help me foks. I've really meessed up my machine. I'm running NetBSD-0.8. It's a 4.3BSD variant. I was happily editing some files today, when i did something (don't know exactly what), and I sent the load skyrocketting. I killed the session which was messing up my machine, and the load returned to normal. When i went to go back to editing my files, I did vi...Permission denied. I did whoami...Permission denied. Everything I did (except ls) said permission denied (su, whoami, who, pwd....). I couldn't cd out of my current directory either. I went to console, and figured i'd reboot it and everything was fine. I logged in as root, and that worked fine. I rebooted....Same problem. I noticed then that when i try to log into it, it says "/bin/csh" permission denied. I can log in as root just fine. But no one else. It seems that no one (except root) has permission to do/to access anything. hubt did something by logging in as root, and copying sh into his home dir. he then changed his shell to "./sh". He could then log in, but couldn't access any files. I fsck'ed my disk, and it said there were summary problems, but it said it fixed them. Still nothing works. I've become really sad (and confused) with my machine. Help :( thanx...alex... -- Alex Tang --- ALTITUDE@UMICH.EDU...USERW00Y@UMICHUM.BITNET -----------+ U of M, SNRE: Student and Computer Consultant II, PGP on req.| ITD/CSS Consultant, Short asian with long hair :) WWW -> http://www.css.itd.umich.edu/users/altitude/