Solaris

Hello,

I've just started using a Solaris machine with SunOS 5.10.
After the machine is turned on, I open a Console window and at the prompt, if I execute a pwd command, it tells me I'm at my home directory (someone configured "myuser" as default user after init).

Code:

 MACH1!myuser(staff,----,noView)@../myuser [41] pwd
 /home/staff/myuser

But the weird thing is that if I run a ls command, it shows me that in fact, it´s at the root directory (!!!)

Code:

 MACH1!myuser(staff,----,noView)@../myuser [42] ls -l
 (Shows directories: 
 /etc
 /home
 /usr ...)

And if I go to a subdirectory, something stranger happens.
It assumes a false path.

Code:

 MACH1!myuser(staff,----,noView)@../myuser [43] cd etc
 MACH1!myuser(staff,----,noView)@../etc [44] pwd
 /home/staff/myuser/etc

If I try to call this false path, the shell naturally can't do it.

Code:

 MACH1!myuser(staff,----,noView)@../etc [45] cd /home/staff/myuser/etc
 /home/staff/myuser/etc: No such file or directory

But if I call my home path, it works as expected.

Code:

 MACH1!myuser(staff,----,noView)@../etc [46] cd /home/staff/myuser
 /home/staff/myuser
  
 MACH1!myuser(staff,----,noView)@../myuser [47] ls -l
 (shows files in my home directory)

Well, I'm not so experienced with Unix and I have no idea what can be wrong. I looked some files such as .profile, dtautologin, but couldn't find anything that seemed to be causing this problem.

Can anyone give me a idea of what´s wrong with the configuration of this machine ?

What do you mean by "someone configured "myuser" as default user after init"? What did "someone" do to make this configuration change?

How did you log into the system?

What output do you get from the command line:

Code:

who am I;ps

Hi Don,

I discovered my problem was due to a highly customized prompt with csh shell.

Code:

 
 set prompt="`uname -n | cut -f1 -d"." `\\!`whoami`($GROUP,$NCID,$VIEW)@../$cwd:t[\!] "

Anyway, I answer your questions.

I am using two machines with Solaris. The other machine asks the user for credentials. But this machine does not.
And when it starts, it goes directly to myuser´s home directory. So I think "myuser" is the default user for this Solaris session.

I don´t know who did it, if "someone" still works at this company (probably not), and which configuration file was edited.

As I said - without credentials.

[CODE]
myuser pts/3 Jun 13 21:24 (unix: 0.0)
PID TTY TIME CMD
1324 pts/3 0:00 ps
845 pts/3 0:00 csh