Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 01:40:39 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: permission problems w/ ordinary user .... Message-ID: <20140803014039.75f4b2f9.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <53DD742F.3020408@hiwaay.net> References: <53DD742F.3020408@hiwaay.net>
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On Sat, 02 Aug 2014 18:28:47 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > > .... I have been trying to setup the regular user (me, non-root) on my > newly minted FreeBSD 9.3 box. I tried su-ing from tooy & ssh-ing in as > me from another box, both give weird results, see the following from my > syslog: > > [...] > Aug 2 18:23:01 kabini1 sshd[1252]: _secure_path: cannot stat > /home/wam/.login_conf: Permission denied > > > also, the home-directory keeps getting the 'x' permission bit set to off > by .... something .... I think you have described the reason for the problem: The x attribute for a directory means "enter and search" and should be _set_ for the user. If it's not, the user cannot enter his own home directory or access files within it. In this case, /home/wam/.login_conf cannot be read which seems to be neccessary for the login process. You need to find that "something" that created or altered /home/wam with the x attribute off. Login as root and correct the setting manually, so you should be able to login afterwards. This is how the resulting "ls -l /home" output it should look like for your user: drwx------ [...] wam wam [...] wam/ ^ (This is minimum permissions; drwxrwxr-x or drwxr-x--- are other common examples.) How did you introduce the user to the system? Did you use "adduser" or "pw add"? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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