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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!kithrup.com!news.Stanford.EDU!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!tpki.toppoint.de!rimki.toppoint.de!chrimek Date: 18 Jun 1996 20:09:00 +0100 From: chrimek@rimki.toppoint.de (Christoph Rimek) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Message-ID: <6B4bEGJoo$B@rimki.toppoint.de> References: <4pro2g$62l@news.ida.org> Subject: Re: only root can get logged in X-Newsreader: CrossPoint v3.1 R/C6513 Organization: Toppoint Mailbox e.V. Reply-To: chrimek@toppoint.de Lines: 28 Hello In article <4pro2g$62l@news.ida.org>, ganderso (ganderso@ida.org) wrote: > After setting up NetBSD/Sparc 1.1 on my SparcStation SLC, I > configured the network, hostname, DNS, etc. Then I added a normal > user account (vi group; vipw; mkdirs; cp .cshrc & .login; chown; > chmod; passwd newuser), but the new user can't login. > > The login goes fine right up until it tries to start the shell, then > produces the following error: > > login: /bin/csh: access denied > > I *think* that I've checked the obvious protections, but I just can't > get it to work. Sounds like wrong permissions for the root file system: does your system's root directory have the eXecute-permission granted for all users? drwxr-xr-x [] root wheel ..... / Otherwise login cannot access the user's home directory and refuses a login. Or, do you have a file /etc/nologin ? -cr -- Christoph Rimek, Kiel, Germany (+49 431 57601) chrimek@toppoint.de