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.
-- Thomas Insel (tinsel@uiuc.edu) s-mail: 804 West Illinois Street #202, Urbana, IL 61801