From: tinsel@uiuc.edu (Thomas Aaron Insel) Subject: Re: [Q] "Cannot execute /bin/*sh: Permission denied" prevents login Date: 7 May 1993 20:55:04 GMT
ralph@falcon.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Ralph Becker-Szendy) writes:
> Since today, any attempt to log into my 0.99.6 Linux box have failed
> with the above message. The first thing which happened (while I was
> still logged in) was that every single command (except shell builtins)
> failed due to "permission denied". Things I have done since then:
This happened to a friend of mine, and we nearly went insane trying to
figure it out. It took about 20 minutes for me to realize that,
somehow, the root directory's permissions had been changed. So, you
might want to try "chmod a+rx /".
-- Thomas Insel (tinsel@uiuc.edu) "Sex in the Champaign Public Library is being restricted to patrons 18 years of age and older." -- Michelle Collins, The Daily Illini