marco@andromeda.UUCP (the wharf rat) (09/16/86)
When I took over my new site, etc/passwd and etc/group were a mess- logins without home directories, groups that weren't in /group, gid's assigned at random, etc. This weekend, I re-organized things, and since all the users had new id's, I used a shell to change things. It went something like this: cd $1 for i in `find . -print` do chown $1 $i chgrp $2 $i done Now, it worked fine, everyone owns their own files and stuff, but a handful of users get the message "sh: pwd: cannot open .." when they login. When you look at their directories, all the permissions protections, ownerships, and the like are correct.It happens in several different file systems, but only to one or two users in each file system. No duplicate uid's or anything, either. I can fix it by copying the user somewhere else, rmdir'ing the old dir, making a new one, and copying the person back, but what went wrong in the first place ? It's an 11/780 running 5.2, if that helps.... W.rat ps- I'm not talking about andromeda, just posting from here.