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From: ficnar@ecf.toronto.edu (FICNAR  FRANK G)
Subject: login: /bin/csh: Permission denied
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Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1995 15:10:28 GMT
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Greetings,

	In an effort to make my computer more accessible from the outside
world I have (quite suddenly) come across the following problem.  If any
user other than root tries to login, the login process is halted by ...

		login: /bin/csh: Permission denied

I have checked the permissions on both the bin directory and the csh
executable; they are as follows ...

drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     512 Nov 22 12:01 bin

... and ...

-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  225280 Nov 22 12:00 csh

This seems to be correct to me.  Of course, if it were correct other users
should be able to log in, which they cannot do.

	How can I fix this?  Thanks for any help or advice.

Frank Ficnar
ficnar@ecf.toronto.edu