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Operating Systems Solaris [Resolved] Strange Issue with user logins Post 302887733 by JoeDirte on Monday 10th of February 2014 01:13:46 PM
Old 02-10-2014
[Resolved] Strange Issue with user logins
Ok got a strange one here. None of my user accounts are able to login into the system. When trying to ssh to the server i get the following.
Code:
Could not chdir to home directory /home/<homedir>: Permission denied
/bin/sh: Permission denied

I checked the permissions on the home directory and even tried changing them to 777. Also checked the permissions of /bin/sh which is a link to /sbin/sh which has permission 755.
When attempting to login through the console I get the message
Code:
No directory!

I can log into the box fine with the root account, and have checked the passwd and shadow file to ensure they are not corrupted. Everything looks fine. I even tried deleting a user account and removing the home directory and recreating the account with a new homedir continues to give same error message.

System is T5140 running solaris 10, everything was working fine up until about a week ago.
 

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LEARN ABOUT MINIX

userdel

userdel(1M)						  System Administration Commands					       userdel(1M)

NAME

       userdel - delete a user's login from the system

SYNOPSIS

       userdel [-r] login

DESCRIPTION

       The  userdel  utility  deletes a user account from the system and makes the appropriate account-related changes to the system file and file
       system.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -r	Remove the user's home directory from the system. This directory must exist. The files and directories under  the  home  directory
		will no longer be accessible following successful execution of the command.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       login	An existing login name to be deleted.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Successful completion.

       2	Invalid command syntax. A usage message for the userdel command is displayed.

       6	The account to be removed does not exist.

       8	The account to be removed is in use.

       10	Cannot update the /etc/group or /etc/user_attr file but the login is removed from the /etc/passwd file.

       12	Cannot remove or otherwise modify the home directory.

FILES

       /etc/passwd	       system password file

       /etc/shadow	       system file contain users' encrypted passwords and related information

       /etc/group	       system file containing group definitions

       /etc/user_attr	       system file containing additional user attributes

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       auths(1),  passwd(1),  profiles(1),  roles(1),  users(1B),  groupadd(1M), groupdel(1M), groupmod(1M), logins(1M), roleadd(1M), rolemod(1M),
       useradd(1M), userdel(1M), usermod(1M), passwd(4), prof_attr(4), user_attr(4), attributes(5)

NOTES

       The userdel utility only deletes an account definition that is in the local /etc/group, /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, and /etc/user_attr  file.
       file. If a network name service such as NIS or NIS+ is being used to supplement the local /etc/passwd file with additional entries, userdel
       cannot change information supplied by the network name service.

SunOS 5.10							    8 Sep 1999							       userdel(1M)
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