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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!news.u.washington.edu!spleen.apl.washington.edu!user From: kargl@apl.washington.edu (Steven G. Kargl) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: HELP! su: /bin/tcsh: Access denied Date: Mon, 08 May 1995 11:04:53 -0700 Organization: Applied Physics Lab/University of Washington Lines: 26 Message-ID: <kargl-0805951104530001@spleen.apl.washington.edu> References: <3ohm24$lgk@opihi.aloha.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nntp5.u.washington.edu In article <3ohm24$lgk@opihi.aloha.com>, dchun@flex.com wrote: > We have a very strange problem with our BSDI 2.0 set up. One day, users > couldn't login and when we attempt to su any user on the system, we get a su: > /bin/tcsh: Access denied error message. Only root is able to login to the > system. Sendmail also reports that "system is looped back to itself". > > Does anyone have any answers to the above symptoms? We are stumped. Thanks. > Does everyone have the directory where tcsh lives (/usr/local/bin?) in their path? Are the permissions for tcsh set correctly for execution? %cd /usr/local/bin %ls -l tcsh ---x--x--x [...deleted....] tcsh Try adding /usr/local/bin/tcsh to the file /etc/shells. -- Steven G. Kargl Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington Seattle, WA 98105