https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/su-no-shell-error/m-p/2442339#M8019 I fixed the problem by changing the permissions of / to 755 Sun, 03 Sep 2000 20:19:45 GMT John McWilliams 2000-09-03T20:19:45Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/su-no-shell-error/m-p/2442338#M8018 When logging in to a HP9000 the message<BR />no shell appears. We are running the ksh. The path and permissions are all correct.<BR />root is fine to login in with.<BR />any helpwould be appreciated Sun, 03 Sep 2000 19:37:21 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/su-no-shell-error/m-p/2442338#M8018 John McWilliams 2000-09-03T19:37:21Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/su-no-shell-error/m-p/2442339#M8019 I fixed the problem by changing the permissions of / to 755 Sun, 03 Sep 2000 20:19:45 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/su-no-shell-error/m-p/2442339#M8019 John McWilliams 2000-09-03T20:19:45Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/su-no-shell-error/m-p/2442340#M8020 I fixed the problem by changing the permissions of / to 755 Sun, 03 Sep 2000 20:20:15 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/su-no-shell-error/m-p/2442340#M8020 John McWilliams 2000-09-03T20:20:15Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/su-no-shell-error/m-p/2442341#M8021 Be very careful about changing permissions on HP-UX directories. The no-shell symptom is only a small sample of the things that go wrong with wrong permissions on /, /opt, /var, /usr, /sbin and so on. Top level directories are (in general) 755 and owned by root. More than a few sysadmins have spent hours with strange symptoms after 'improving' directory permissions. Mon, 04 Sep 2000 00:54:23 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/su-no-shell-error/m-p/2442341#M8021 Bill Hassell 2000-09-04T00:54:23Z