vanished user accounts?
Hi all, i have the following problem on my three suse 7.0 and one 7.1 box, after a while when i wanted to log in under my test account, the message was, cannot switch to homedir (no access or something) i relogged in under my root account and then i wanted to correct this problem, i used midnight commander to look where the directory and user permissions of the /home/test account were, these stuff were correctly displayed: i found out that all the permissions still belonged to user test, this was very strange in my opinion, i thought well that is not right but reinstall might help, so i did that, and then my other three boxes suddenly displayed the same problem, all after 2 to 3 weeks, i am pretty sure that i didn't change the userpermissions on the machines ( i can make an mistake but not on 4 machines :)*) so i am guessing that it's an bug, removing the users and readding them does NOT work, so anyone, can u help me? or someone of the SuSE team : is this correcT? met vriendelijke groeten, with kind regards, Remko JC @ irc.super-chat.nl (tech-Admin) NightWatcher @ irc.grunn.org / irc2.grunn.org (IRCoperator) [DrL] Member [Grunn] Coders [Zyber] /* hope the day after you die is an nice one */ niets uit deze mail mag worden gecopieerd of aan derden gelezen laten worden zonder toestemming van de auteur. al deze emails vallen onder briefgeheim. wetboek van strafrecht. Nothing from this mail may be duplicated of may be read by others then the target name. you need authorization from the owner to duplicate it. these mails are secure and restricted confirming the dutch book of law _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
never use test as username, dirname or something. It's a command and may cause problems. -----Original Message----- From: Night Watcher [mailto:theeagle84@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 12:43 PM To: suse-security@suse.com Subject: [suse-security] vanished user accounts? Hi all, i have the following problem on my three suse 7.0 and one 7.1 box, after a while when i wanted to log in under my test account, the message was, cannot switch to homedir (no access or something) i relogged in under my root account and then i wanted to correct this problem, i used midnight commander to look where the directory and user permissions of the /home/test account were, these stuff were correctly displayed: i found out that all the permissions still belonged to user test, this was very strange in my opinion, i thought well that is not right but reinstall might help, so i did that, and then my other three boxes suddenly displayed the same problem, all after 2 to 3 weeks, i am pretty sure that i didn't change the userpermissions on the machines ( i can make an mistake but not on 4 machines :)*) so i am guessing that it's an bug, removing the users and readding them does NOT work, so anyone, can u help me? or someone of the SuSE team : is this correcT? met vriendelijke groeten, with kind regards, Remko JC @ irc.super-chat.nl (tech-Admin) NightWatcher @ irc.grunn.org / irc2.grunn.org (IRCoperator) [DrL] Member [Grunn] Coders [Zyber] /* hope the day after you die is an nice one */ niets uit deze mail mag worden gecopieerd of aan derden gelezen laten worden zonder toestemming van de auteur. al deze emails vallen onder briefgeheim. wetboek van strafrecht. Nothing from this mail may be duplicated of may be read by others then the target name. you need authorization from the owner to duplicate it. these mails are secure and restricted confirming the dutch book of law _________________________________________________________________ ________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-security-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-security-help@suse.com
Hi! On Mon, 14 May 2001, Night Watcher wrote:
Hi all, i have the following problem on my three suse 7.0 and one 7.1 box, after a while when i wanted to log in under my test account, the message was, cannot switch to homedir (no access or something)
What does "ls -ld /home/test" exactly say? "ls -ldn /home/test"? What does "grep test /etc/passwd" say? Bye, Martin
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 13:47 +0200, Martin Köhling wrote:
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Night Watcher wrote:
Hi all, i have the following problem on my three suse 7.0 and one 7.1 box, after a while when i wanted to log in under my test account, the message was, cannot switch to homedir (no access or something)
What does "ls -ld /home/test" exactly say? "ls -ldn /home/test"? What does "grep test /etc/passwd" say?
You have some assumptions here which might not always apply. :) Use something like "ls -ld ~test" and "finger test" or "id test" (depending on what you want to check with the grep(1) command). To bring in a new point to check: UNIX *is* case sensitive, make sure you write things with correct capitalization! virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you.
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Gerhard Sittig wrote:
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 13:47 +0200, Martin Köhling wrote:
What does "ls -ld /home/test" exactly say? "ls -ldn /home/test"? What does "grep test /etc/passwd" say?
You have some assumptions here which might not always apply. :)
We're talking about a unmodified SuSE Linux system here, don't we? :)
Use something like "ls -ld ~test" and "finger test" or "id test" (depending on what you want to check with the grep(1) command).
Mainly uid/gid and home directory. I just wanted to use the most basic tools available - if a system is somehow misconfigured, the "system" tools (and even things like "~user") might give confusing results... Bye, Martin
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:11 +0200, Martin Köhling wrote:
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Gerhard Sittig wrote:
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 13:47 +0200, Martin Köhling wrote:
What does "ls -ld /home/test" exactly say? "ls -ldn /home/test"? What does "grep test /etc/passwd" say?
You have some assumptions here which might not always apply. :)
We're talking about a unmodified SuSE Linux system here, don't we? :)
In the meantime I noticed we have a completely different problem and it turns out to be not solvable: The guy originally asking ("Night.Watcher") apparently suffers from infancy and frankly speaking is the real culprit here. When he first didn't get the point of my reply he told me to "stop sending this nonsense messages". When I asked him to state clearly what he did, what worked, what didn't, what the exact error message was and what he did to check his configuration the answer was "drop dead or at least shut up when you're not able to help me solve my problem". That burping at those who try to help is not a very bright idea didn't appear to him, either. Since he's a "certified Linux engineer" (now I wonder what that means ...) I suggest we don't try to help any further (you might remember: no good deed goes unpunished) and let him solve his problem himself -- since he's well educated and probably only lacks the time and interest to research this error honestly. virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you.
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