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Date:      Wed, 16 Feb 2000 08:13:31 -0500 (EST)
From:      Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
To:        R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: user account gone awry
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10002160813000.26983-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <38AA17F6.EAFCAAE3@nwlink.com>

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Do you get an error when loggin in?  Perhaps the pathing to the home
directory isnt correct, or perhaps the perms on the mount point of the
home partition arent correct.

On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, R Joseph Wright wrote:

> I just upgraded my system from 3.4 to 4.0 with cvsup/make world.
> Everything went beautifully, until a few minutes ago, when I logged into
> my machine as a user, and it allowed me to log in, but my bash prompt
> was  the default prompt, not my own configured one.  I realized then
> that I was in the / directory, not my home directory.  When I tried to
> get to my home directory, I got "Permission Denied".
> I really don't know if this problem has anything to do with my upgrade,
> after all, I logged in fine several times before.
> I finally decided to back up my home directory, then rmuser.  Then I did
> adduser.  I got the same result when I logged in again.  Does anyone
> know what's going on here?  I realize this is not a lot of information,
> but if you can direct me, I'll gladly supply more.  Thank you, Joseph.
> 
> 
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