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From: zukerman@asparagus.berkeley.edu (Itai Zukerman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: login problem--newbie
Date: 16 Apr 1993 07:39:52 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department.
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Message-ID: <1qlns8$i3n@agate.berkeley.edu>
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Keywords: login, csh

I've just installed the binary distribution
on my computer.  I edited the master.passwd
file via vipw, to add some under-privileged
users with passwords, and everything worked
fine.  Except today I tried logging in as one
of those users, and got:
	/bin/csh: Permission denied
and ended up back in login.  I logged on as
root, and that worked fine.  I checked the
necessary permissions, and everything LOOKED
ok.  I tried to su to another user, and got
	su:  /bin/csh file not found
I tried switching to a different shell (sh),
with the same results.  I've fooled around
with groups and permissions, to no avail.  I'm
afraid that this is just some stupidity on
my part...

And if it explains anything, yesterday my system
was accidentally shut off in login without sync-ing
or halt-ing.

ANY help would be appreciated.

-Itai Zukerman
-zukerman@math.berkeley.edu