Problem logging on to HP-UX 9000 L2000

[Evella Dawson]

I have tried all the senarios, nothing is working. My SA recreate my account. I tried logging on again. The following message appears: no shell
memory fault(coredump)

The core dump is in my home directory.

[Geno Church]

My suggestion would be to check and see if all the users's .profile has been modified. Check to see if anything/anyone may have made modifications to it and correct if needed.

Geno-HP

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again) Evella:

Verify that the root directory grants you access. As root, do:

# ls -ld /

...you should see something like:

drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 6144 Jan 17 20:39 /

If the permissions are not as shown, change them appropriately.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Joseph C. Denman]

Evella,

For some reason, you system in not finding the shell. Stated above are the only things that would really cause the error you are receiving. I would double check.

1. perm /etc/passwd ...444
2. perm /usr ...555
3. perm /usr/bin ...555
4. perm /usr/bin/sh ...555
5. perm /usr/bin/ksh ...555

I have also seen funny problems with bad charaters in the /etc/passwd. If all above checks out ok, have the sa move you password entry close to the top of /etc/passwd. Shooting in the dark now????


...jcd...

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi Evella,

Looks like it is permission problems. Ask your SA to look at the permissions of /sbin,/usr/bin directory where the shells reside. Also ask him/her to check the permissions of /, it should be 755.

-Sri

[Evella Dawson]

Thanks to all of you who have responded. I and the rest of the users on the system is unable to logon. We have checked every thing, still no success. All ideas are welcomed.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Evella:

OK. Do the shells represented in /etc/passwd specify the 'usr/bin' directory or the transition link, 'bin'? They should be '/usr/bin'.

An 'ls -l /' as root should show (in part):

# lr-xr-xr-t 1 root sys 8 Aug 20 1997 bin -> /usr/bin

and:

lr-xr-xr-t 1 root sys 8 Aug 20 1997 lib -> /usr/lib

...if not, then do:

# /opt/upgrade/bin/tlinstall -v

Regards!

...JRF...

[Joseph C. Denman]

Evella,

Are all the users using the same shell? Is /etc/profile or $HOME/.profile attempting to change the shell? Have you checked to see if the shells entered in /etc/passwd exist?

This has got to be something simple being overlooked.

...jcd...

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

One more permission to check.
-r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin /usr/bin/login

Look at the setuid bit.

-Sri

[Evella Dawson]

1. The shells are specifiel in /usr/bin.
2. My users are using the same shell.
3. the /usr/bin/login is correct.