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by **Heling Y** » Wed, 17 Sep 1997 04:00:00

Hi,

we have a wield login problem with Ultra 2 running Solaris 2.5.1. Root can
log in but normal users can't. The error message I got when I tried to
log in as a normal user is the following:

login: hello
Password:
No directory!

However, after logging as root, I found that the user home directories
mounted correctly. Moreover, I can't su the normal users, the error
message is

#su hello
su: No shell

BTW, we are using NIS,the Ultra 2 is a client. Other clients on the system
(including a Sparc 4 which is also runing Solaris 2.5.1 box) have no
problem at all.

Any idea?

Thanks a lot in advance!

Heling

by **Alba Jervi** » Sun, 21 Sep 1997 04:00:00

> Hi,

> we have a wield login problem with Ultra 2 running Solaris 2.5.1. Root can
> log in but normal users can't. The error message I got when I tried to
> log in as a normal user is the following:

> login: hello
> Password:
> No directory!

> However, after logging as root, I found that the user home directories
> mounted correctly. Moreover, I can't su the normal users, the error
> message is

> #su hello
> su: No shell

There you have it I think... Check in the /etc/password file or the
/etc/shadow file (if you are using that). Have a look at the path
specified for the users shell. I've seen this error when adding a
user with a special shell (i.e. tcsh) which was not in the place
stated in the password file. You might want to set up a symbolic link
to correct this problem.

The default shell for root is sh which is probably not the one specified
for the other users (which is why root works)

Mike Jervis
Western Atlas Logging Services

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Please help: Wield login problem.

Please help: Wield login problem.

Please help: Wield login problem.