cannot su or logon with non-root user

[tommy_28]

I just simply made some common chmod operations to the oracle user, and edited it's profile.
After that, I cannot logon or su - , the OS said: SH not found.
I have no idea what happened.

It's hpux11.23.
I deleted this oracle user and added another one, no change. Rebooted, no change.

Somebody help!
Thx.
Tommy

[Pete Randall]

Tommy,

I would suggest restoring the Oracle user's profile (or undoing whatever changes you did). After that we can work on what's wrong with the profile changes.


Pete

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Tommy,

I think you have chown or chmod root directory or the usr directory.

dr-xr-xr-x 25 bin bin 1024 Sep 19 2000 usr
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 1024 Dec 23 09:42 .

Robert-Jan

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Tommy

What is teh default shell defined in the /etc/passwd file .

Also you can login as root and check for the .profile in the $home of the user to see if the same is not running some typos.
There can be anamolies in the /etc/passwd file if you are manually creating the user.

Manoj Srivastava

[Massimo Bianchi]

Hi,
check also if you have accidentally deleted the /etc/shells and its content (should be a list of all shells usable in the system).

Massimo

[Kent Ostby]

Check directory permissions for the default oracle user's home, root, usr, tmp, and var.

Check ownership of root, usr, tmp, var and oracle user's home.

Also, did you change /etc/profile or just the user profile.

Copies of /etc/profile can be found in /usr/newconfig/etc/profile.

Please post output from:
cd /; ll | grep ^d

and

grep (oracle_user_name) /etc/passwd

and

cd /(oracle_user_home); ll .

Best regards,

Kent M. Ostby

[tommy_28]

Goossens's consideration is right. Somebody had changed /. modes. When I changed back it's ok.

Thanks a lot!