strange and serious problem about user login

[Zhen Zhou]

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, replies-lists-redhat at listmail.innovate.net
<replies-lists-redhat at listmail.innovate.net> 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,
> >
> >
> >
> > Zhou Zhen
> >
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