Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 02:15:09 -0700 (PDT) From: "Bryan K. Ogawa" <bkogawa@primenet.com> To: data@ds9.abac.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Permission Denied on shell ? Message-ID: <199706170915.CAA17907@foo.primenet.com> References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970617010315.28966H-100000@ds9.abac.com>
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In localhost.freebsd.questions you write: >There's probably a real simple answer to this that'll make me feel real >stupid, but since I'm writing this at 1:05 am, I have an excuse. :) >For some reason, though, when I try to telnet in, I get this: >[82]root@voyager:/home/guest # telnet voyager >Trying 208.137.248.5... >Connected to voyager.abac.com. >Escape character is '^]'. >FreeBSD (voyager.abac.com) (ttyp0) >login: guest >Last login: Tue Jun 17 01:01:03 from voyager >Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994 > The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. >FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE (VOYAGER) #0: Sat May 24 22:47:12 PDT 1997 >login: /home/guest/question: Permission denied >Connection closed by foreign host. >I've tried setting /home/guest/question's modes to 700 (as seen in the >above illustration), 711, 755, and even 777, all to no avail (I get the >same message). Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Thanks! You may need to add the shell to /etc/shells , the list of acceptable shells. I think this is the message that you get if you have an illegal shell and you try to log in. -- bryan k ogawa <bkogawa@primenet.com> http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/
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