strange and serious problem about user login

[Zhen Zhou]

Most files and directories in /etc/ are root ownership, and the files
are -rw------- , and directories is drw-r-----.

Zhou Zhen
On 6/26/06, replies-lists-redhat at listmail.innovate.net
<replies-lists-redhat at listmail.innovate.net> wrote:
> what are the permissions on /etc/ ?
>
>
> ------------ Original Message ------------
> > Date: Monday, June 26, 2006 01:01:09 PM +0800
> > From: Zhen Zhou <zhouzhenzj at gmail.com>
> > To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: strange and serious problem about user login
> >
> > Hi,
> > Thanks for your quickly reply, but I still confused about your
> > mentioned.
> >
> > I took a look at /etc/ directory, but i couldn't find any problem on
> > that.
> > ls -l:
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 842 May 25 2004 profile
> > so is it not correct?
> >
> > I could understannd what you told me that maybe I messed up
> > permissions on this system.
> >
> > And I need to provide what kind more information that could help to
> > trace the problem,
> >
> > Anyway, any tips will be welcome,
> >
> >
> > Zhou Zhen
> >
> > On 6/26/06,  wrote:
> >> based on the little info that you've provided, it sounds like you may
> >> have messed up permissions on your /etc/ directory.
> >>
> >> in general, the /etc/ directory (and it's contents) is owned.grouped
> >> by root.root with "group" and "other" having read and execute (as
> >> appropriate) access to most files. e.g., group/other should have read
> >> access to /etc/profile .
> >>
> >>
> >> ------------ Original Message ------------
> >> > Date: Monday, June 26, 2006 11:19:40 AM +0800
> >> > From: Zhen Zhou <zhouzhenzj at gmail.com>
> >> > To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> >> > Subject: strange and serious problem about user login
> >> >
> >> > Hi, all,
> >> > I am using Fedora 3, today I found serious problem, I couldn't
> >> > start any service other than root.
> >> > and I try to login as normal user except root, the teminal show me:
> >> > --bash: /etc/profile: Permission denied
> >> > --bash: 3.00$
> >> >
> >> > and when I start sshd in this pc, I get no errors, but when I check
> >> > the status of sshd,
> >> > it showed me: sshd dead but subsys locked
> >> >
> >> > When I login as root in terminal without any problem, but I keyin:
> >> > su normal-user
> >> > I got error: could not open session
> >> >
> >> > I guess, maybe the user manage got problem, but I dodn't know how
> >> > to solve the problem.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Thanks a lot for any tips,
> >> >
>
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