rhodes@grebyn.com (Ned Rhodes) (02/14/90)
I had a disk go bad on a V.3 system. I formatted up another drive and did a re-installation of unix. I then overlaid my backup tape to take care of the differences. The system comes up fine with one exception. I can only login as root. Whenever I try another username, it gives me the initial login banner and then says "no shell". If I log in as root and then do an "su newusername", I get the error message "su: No shell". Can anyone enlighten me as to what the problem is? The manual page for su does not list any error messages. Under login, I find that the no shell error message says that it cannot read the password file. In looking at that, the protections all look correct. Can anyone hazard a guess as to what the problem might be. Thanks. -- Ned W. Rhodes (703) 534-2297 (voice) Software Systems Group (703) 237-9654 (fax) 2001 North Kenilworth Street CompuServe : 71321,424 Arlington, VA 22205 rhodes@grebyn.COM