Re: Problem: can't log in/su with any non-root user

1999-07-25 Thread Jeremy Morgan
> > What're the permissions on /? (ls -ld /) > > THANK YOU! It never even occured to me to check the permissions on /. But when I did, I found that only root, the owner, had permission to execute. Well I fixed that! And now everything seems to be working. Gosh, am I glad. Again, thanks guys. Y

Re: Problem: can't log in/su with any non-root user

1999-07-25 Thread Jeremy Morgan
I ran potato for a long time without any problems, but I built a new computer recently so I reinstalled everything. Then the problem arised. When I couldn't fix it, I just reinstalled again--from scratch, a nice, clean hard drive. Everything was fine with my 2.1 install, but when I upgraded to po

Re: Problem: can't log in/su with any non-root user

1999-07-25 Thread Jeremy Morgan
> > What are your permissions for /bin/login? > > -- > Andrew I've check the permissions on many files. I may've overlooked one, but here is /bin/login. -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root40432 May 31 15:01 /bin/login

Problem: can't log in/su with any non-root user

1999-07-25 Thread Jeremy Morgan
I'm not sure if this has been posted before (I've looked but can't find anything.) I recently reinstalled debian because the only user that my system could use was root. When I tried to su to any user except root I would get error messages: su: cannot run /bin/bash: Permission denied When I