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Old 09-29-2001
Unix login problem
When i am trying to login to my unix machine. It is directly loging me into root ( / ) directory, instead of my home directory. Why this is happening. And generally when this happens
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Old 09-29-2001
Hi..
I think may be while creating the user ID you have created the home directory root..go to /etc/passwd file and change the home directory.........





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praful
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Old 09-29-2001
Hi Prafulla,
Thanks for responding. But, the user_id is created by our system administrator. I used to login in to my assigned home directory. But, all of sudden this problem occured and i am directly loging to root directory.
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Old 09-29-2001
Alert your system administrator IMMEDIATELY!
If this was not done in error, your system
may have been compromised.
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Old 09-29-2001
More than likely the path to your home directory is wrong in the /etc/passwd file or auto_home table (if automounting). I assume you do not have write permissions to / If so there is a big problem. Either way contact the responsible sysadmin.
 
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