topic Permission denied in Operating System - HP-UX

Permission denied

bhargavi — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:20:24 GMT

Hello, One of the unix user found the below while logging to the server

lccdb019# su - c22adm
The copyright notice can be read by typing: cat /etc/copyright.text
[1] %
[1] % pwd
/
[2] % cd
cd: Can't change to home directory.
[3] %

Usually the user prompt will be '$'

Re: Permission denied

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:28:55 GMT

Hi:

It looks like user 'c22adm' uses the 'csh' [C-shell] as his/her default shell since the prompt is a "%" character.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Permission denied

Steven Schweda — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:05:42 GMT

> Subject Permission denied

What does this Subject have to do with
anything here?

> cd: Can't change to home directory.

Look at the "/etc/passwd" (or whatever)
entry for this user, and see what is
specified as the home directory. Then see if
it exists, and who owns it.

ls -ld

Re: Permission denied

Dennis Handly — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:44:43 GMT

>cd: Can't change to home directory.
>Usually the user prompt will be '$'

This can happen if the automounter can't mount your home directory. None of your ~/.profile is executed.
It seems strange your prompt is "%" because that indicates you may be using the scummy C shell and if so, why would you change the prompt to "$"?

Re: Permission denied

Amitav — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:04:49 GMT

First of all check on which group the user is created and does the user have any limitation or limited commands which he can execute...

Secondly about the prompt, u can change this on .profile under user's home directory and keep the desired prompt...

Thirdly if nothing works u can delete and recreate the user once again, provided the user has not kept any important files on his home directory.