deyrau@ciba-geigy.ch (Dipl agr Veronique Eyraud) (09/28/90)
I can log on the machine as root, butanybody else gets thrown away. No explanation in the console or SYSLOG. I have checked the password file (yp used successfuly on another machine) the login directories are there and accessible the /etc/cshrc, .cshrc and .login (we are running the csh) Everything looks desperately normal Any idea? (My local support says I should reload the system ---GASP!!!)
pj@giraffe.asd.sgi.com (Paul Jackson) (09/28/90)
In article <9009271607.AA21257@focci01.wirz.cigy>, deyrau@ciba-geigy.ch (Dipl agr Veronique Eyraud) writes: |> |> I can log on the machine as root, butanybody else gets thrown away. |> No explanation in the console or SYSLOG. |> I have checked |> the password file (yp used successfuly on another machine) |> the login directories are there and accessible |> the /etc/cshrc, .cshrc and .login (we are running the csh) 1) Does logining in NOGRAPHICS work? To try it, place the word NOGRAPHICS after your login id, as in: login: joeblow NOGRAPHICS 2) Check that each file known to /etc/getty and /bin/login seem ok. To see what files these commands know of, as root run the command strings - /etc/getty /bin/login | grep / > sometempfile Then for each path listed in `sometempfile', examine the named file, perhaps comparing it with the similar file on a working machine. Do the permissions, sizes, and (if directory or text file) contents seem similar or reasonable? 3) If inquiring further about this, let us know what release. -- Thanks, take care ... Paul Jackson (pj@asd.sgi.com), x1373
mitch@sgi.com (Thomas Mitchell) (10/23/90)
In article <9009271607.AA21257@focci01.wirz.cigy> deyrau@ciba-geigy.ch (Dipl agr Veronique Eyraud) writes:
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* I can log on the machine as root, butanybody else gets thrown away.
* No explanation in the console or SYSLOG.
* I have checked
* the password file (yp used successfuly on another machine)
* the login directories are there and accessible
* the /etc/cshrc, .cshrc and .login (we are running the csh)
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* Everything looks desperately normal
Pay close attention to both 'r' and 'x' bits on directories.
Look at the permissions of the mount points with and withouut
the file system mounted. Look all the way up the dir tree
for missing search ('x') permissions.
* Any idea? (My local support says I should reload the system ---GASP!!!)
GASP is right, this is a last resort. But we all remember
the story about Alexander the Great and the Gordian knot.
"WACK-WACK" and off to more productive work.
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Thomas P. Mitchell -- mitch@sgi.com or mitch%relay.csd@sgi.com
"All things in moderation; including moderation."