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by **Robert Chri** » Wed, 03 Mar 1993 08:41:18

When I try logging onto a machine as someone other than root
I get:

3004-505 Cannot set process environment.

Can someone tell me what this means. I don't know where to start
looking.
rob

by **Vance R. Ba** » Wed, 03 Mar 1993 19:45:12

>When I try logging onto a machine as someone other than root
>I get:

>3004-505 Cannot set process environment.

>Can someone tell me what this means. I don't know where to start
>looking.

You're in luck! I saw this one Friday. Some zealous database admin
has changed everything in the directory /database by running the
following:
# cd /database
# chown database.database .*
Luckily he hadn't been eager enough to make it "chown -R", because
the ".*" matched the parent directory -- the root filesystem --
and login needs to be able to write into that in order for you to
log in (setting tty ownership and permissions, I imagine).
You'll still be able to log in as root in that case, and you should
simply change the ownership and permissions of the root directory
back to bin.bin and 755 (check on another system if possible to
verify those permissions).
-v-

From: Vance R. Bass AIX Systems Specialist, IBM Technical Services

Any resemblance between the above and the official IBM
position is purely coincidental.
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| Remember, it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that certain je ne |
| sais quoi. -- Peter Schickele |
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From: Vance R. Bass AIX Systems Specialist, IBM Technical Services

Any resemblance between the above and the official IBM
position is purely coincidental.
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Remember, it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that certain je ne |
| sais quoi. -- Peter Schickele |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+

by **Brian Butcha** » Sat, 06 Mar 1993 08:19:40

> >When I try logging onto a machine as someone other than root
> >I get:

> >3004-505 Cannot set process environment.

> >Can someone tell me what this means. I don't know where to start
> >looking.

> You're in luck! I saw this one Friday. Some zealous database admin
> has changed everything in the directory /database by running the
> following:
> # cd /database
> # chown database.database .*
> Luckily he hadn't been eager enough to make it "chown -R", because
> the ".*" matched the parent directory -- the root filesystem --
> and login needs to be able to write into that in order for you to
> log in (setting tty ownership and permissions, I imagine).
> You'll still be able to log in as root in that case, and you should
> simply change the ownership and permissions of the root directory
> back to bin.bin and 755 (check on another system if possible to
> verify those permissions).
> -v-

I have the same problem, and my root directory has the correct ownerships and permissions. This is when I sign on to an AIX v3.2 machine using rsh, rlogin or telnet. However, when I sign on as a local user (in the /etc/passwd) there is no problem. I have no such problem when I sign on to an AIX v3.1.5 machine as a non-local user. So I wonder if the problem has something to do with AIX v3.2 and/or NIS?

> From: Vance R. Bass AIX Systems Specialist, IBM Technical Services

Brian
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