From: Thomas Aaron Insel (tinsel@uiuc.edu)
Date: 08/01/93


From: tinsel@uiuc.edu (Thomas Aaron Insel)
Subject: Re: Permission error
Date: 1 Aug 1993 18:07:06 GMT

supot@nwg.nectec.or.th (Supoj Choachaicharoenkul) writes:

> I'm using zsh, there is only one copy in /bin, I use it without
> problem for a long time, but one day, I can't log on with other names
> except root. It reported when login 'can't execute /bin/zsh permission
> denied' I have checked /bin permission and found that it is drwxr-xr-x
> and for zsh in /bin that own by root has rwxrwxrwx. Another place I
> have over looked?

Yes. See what the permissions on your root directory are. I've seen
a similar problem 2 or 3 times. Each time, regular users had been
somehow denied read and execute permission for /.

Also, you probably shouldn't let users have write permission for zsh.

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