From: hamdy@rzdspc22.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Safuat Hamdy) Subject: Re: HELP: shell-init: Permission denied Date: 1 Feb 1993 17:05:38 GMT
In article <1993Jan28.003901.2175@exucom.com>, bribbeck@exucom.com (Bob Ribbeck) writes:
|> I had the same problem too. The problem is not obvious perrmissions but
|> one that gets overlooked. Do "chmod 755 /" your root directory only has root
|> permissions and must have r_x permissions. This is what I found causing the
|> problem when non-root users login and are trying to use dirs/files/etc off the
|> root directory. Persay they need the r_x permission just to login and pass thru
|> the root.
that shows again that UNIX is a system where you can detect new subtleties each second.
at best you give rwxr-xr-x permissions (at least) to all directories for public usage, eg:
find / -type d -exec chmod a+rx {} \;
or the like.
S. Hamdy
hamdy@rzdspc1.informaik.uni-hamburg.de