No directory! error with su command
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Name: drice
Date: November 3, 2003 at 05:49:26 Pacific
Subject: No directory! error with su command
OS: Solaris 8
CPU/Ram: Sun Fire 280R 1 Go
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Comment: When issuing su - login (I have 5 logins on my server), except for root, I got the following error : "No Directory!" But directories for users exist! And they got the good rights.
For example, my user maint :
cat /etc/passwd | grep maint
maint:x:102:0:Maintenance Arca-Network:/home/maint:/bin/bash ls -al /home | grep maint
drwxrwxrwx 2 maint root 512 Nov 3 13:45 maint su - maint
No directory! Can someone help me to understand? Is it a problem regarding patches?
Thanks,
Drice from France PS : on my others servers it works fine!!!
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Response Number 2
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Name: ftye
Date: November 12, 2003 at 17:13:48 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Add the -m flag to your useradd command. i.e
useradd -d /home/maint -m maint
This tells the OS to create the home directory.
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Response Number 3
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Name: Denny Raab
Date: November 21, 2003 at 08:54:14 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I had a similar problem once, but the message was "no shell". Anyway, in my experience, the permissions on the / directory was wrong. Only root could log in ... no one else and even root could not su to the id. The permissions were drwx------ for /
I chenged it to:
drwxr-xr-x This fixed it. Your problem is a little different. YOu are getting "No Directory!". I would check the permissions on all the directories above the actual directories. If any of them have the permissions that cause my problem exist ... it could do just what you are experiencing. Good Luck Denny
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