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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!imci3!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.ida.org!usenet@ida.org From: ganderso@ida.org Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: only root can get logged in Date: 19 Jun 1996 14:45:16 GMT Organization: IDA, Alexandria, Virginia Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4q93ps$l45@news.ida.org> References: <4pro2g$62l@news.ida.org> <6B4bEGJoo$B@rimki.toppoint.de> Reply-To: ganderso@ida.org NNTP-Posting-Host: ganderson-pc.oed.ida.org X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2 In <6B4bEGJoo$B@rimki.toppoint.de>, chrimek@rimki.toppoint.de (Christoph Rimek) writes: >Hello >In article <4pro2g$62l@news.ida.org>, ganderso (ganderso@ida.org) wrote: >> login: /bin/csh: access denied >Sounds like wrong permissions for the root file system: does your system's >root directory have the eXecute-permission granted for all users? >drwxr-xr-x [] root wheel ..... / It was, in fact, incorrect permissions on the root directory. I booted a SunOS miniroot to label the disk and untar the NetBSD/Sparc files, and I never checked the permissions on /. Thanks to everyone that sent mail or replied here. This was one of those dumb errors I make so often. -Andy (ganderson@ida.org -or- ganderson@os2bbs.com)