topic Re: mail: permission denied! in Operating System - HP-UX

mail: permission denied!

Husaini_1 — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:50:06 GMT

Hi Expert,

Im not really well in HPUX. But here my problem.

My server hpux (B.11.11) is configured with samba. Right now user having problem to login into server from windows client and it is not accepting their current windows credentials. Also when they tried to telnet to the unix server, it accepts the password (UNIX Password) but it hanged before they could get the command prompt as shown below:
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Open Source Software has been installed on this system. See
/opt/OpenSource/etc/copyright
mail: permission denied!
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Is there anybody expert on why this happen?

Re: mail: permission denied!

Horia Chirculescu — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:55:34 GMT

Hello,

Check this thread:

http://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447627+1267793688170+28353475&threadId=1192299

Horia.

Re: mail: permission denied!

Dennis Handly — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:57:58 GMT

>mail: permission denied!

What does "echo $MAIL" show?
Do you have read permission on that file?

Re: mail: permission denied!

Husaini_1 — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:10:40 GMT

there is nothing wrong with the mail. this server is NIS client.

Re: mail: permission denied!

Dennis Handly — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:14:50 GMT

>there is nothing wrong with the mail.

You don't care about this error message?
mail: permission denied!

Re: mail: permission denied!

Husaini_1 — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:15:16 GMT

Horia,

I already read and tried it at problem server. The passwd is okay. the password
map was propagated to the NIS client. this is weird for me since my id also part of thise NIS but i can login without problem. The different between me and the user is they are samba user and im not.

Re: mail: permission denied!

Husaini_1 — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:16:51 GMT

Dennis,

i already check at mail. permission is okay. may be u can give me some info on what else can i check.

Re: mail: permission denied!

Horia Chirculescu — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:18:29 GMT

>The different between me and the user is they are samba user and im not.

Maybe the samba server is authenticating into the same domain as the windows station...

Horia.

Re: mail: permission denied!

Robert-Jan Goossens — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:44:21 GMT

Hi Sin,

Where are your users home directories located?

NFS?

Do your users use a history file?

Regards,
Robert-Jan

Re: mail: permission denied!

Dennis Handly — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:54:28 GMT

>permission is okay. may be you can give me some info on what else can I check.

Well if it hangs, you can't really check.
What I had in mind:
echo $MAIL
ll $MAIL
id

Re: mail: permission denied!

Husaini_1 — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:16:19 GMT

Hi Sin,

Where are your users home directories located?

NFS?

Do your users use a history file?

Regards,
Robert-Jan

Hi Robert,

its located at NIS master which is also unix server. It not use NFS.

I already go to home user at NIS master and there is no history file. May i know, what ur suggestion.

Re: mail: permission denied!

Horia Chirculescu — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:50:45 GMT

This kind of problems are usually hard to debug. I would try to understand what have changed and where the changes were made. Go through the NIS server and NIS client 's logs and try to find out any unusual problems reported in the near past. Reboot the NIS client if possible or at least restart the NIS client's daemons /sbin/init.d/nis.client stop/start )

Horia.