RE: Access permissions under 2.0.34

Russell Berry (russ@berrex.com)
Mon, 15 Jun 1998 20:16:58 -0400 (EDT)


do ls -l /, not just /bin/sh. You'll probably find that somehow the directory
permissions are wrong, like dwrx------ /bin or something like that..., just
chmod 755 /bin.

---russ

On 16-Jun-98 Stephen Davies wrote:
> I have been trying to upgrade my 2.0.33 system to 2.0.34 but find that only
> root can login after upgrading.
>
> Nothing except the kernel has changed in my configuration.
>
> Any attempt to log in as a normal user gets a permissions failure accessing
> /bin/sh.
>
> I tried changing one user's shell to csh. That got as far as starting the
> very
> old version of csh on my box but failed on any attempt to access almost
> anything else. (Guessing, but the codes that I _can_ access could well be old
> aout binaries.)
>
> I have only just rejoined this list so excuse me if this has already been
> covered.
>
> Cheers and thanks,
> Stephen.
>
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