topic Re: su: no shell in Operating System - HP-UX

su: no shell

Warren griggs — Tue, 24 Sep 2002 10:50:11 GMT

Hi,

When i try to log into my machine i get an error message saying...

su: no shell
memory fault

I have booted to single user and tried to restore /home but this has not worked.
This happened after some data was moved about in the /home area.

Any ideas would be great (apart from a restore!)

Thanks in advance,

Colin.

Re: su: no shell

Clemens van Everdingen — Tue, 24 Sep 2002 10:52:39 GMT

Hi,

How about the permissions of /home or restored directories ?

C.

Re: su: no shell

Clemens van Everdingen — Tue, 24 Sep 2002 10:57:27 GMT

Hi,

Maybe even the permissions on /
should be:

drwxr-xr-x 31 root root

C.

Re: su: no shell

Ravi_8 — Tue, 24 Sep 2002 10:58:17 GMT

Hi, colin

In /etc/passwd
for user root shell must be /sbin/sh
for users it can be /usr/sbin/ksh or /usr/sbin/sh

Re: su: no shell

Cheryl Griffin — Tue, 24 Sep 2002 11:00:33 GMT

Also check the permissions of /
# ll -d /

Correct them with:
# chmod 755 /

Login as the user, instead of su and see if there is a different error message. It may indicate something wrong with the user still. Compare it to the entry in /etc/passwd verifying the right user directory and shell.

Cheryl

Re: su: no shell

Joseph A Benaiah_1 — Wed, 25 Sep 2002 06:58:48 GMT

Colin,

I have seen this on servers running HP-UX 10.20.

You can rectify this by installing PHKL_20356 which is the AdvJFS: fix direct read to return correct error patch.

Cheers,

Joseph.