No Shell message when login

[blessing]

hie guys , i have a HP-UX 10-20 on a trusted system.
my problem is when a user trys to login he/sh gets the message "NO Shell " , then disconnects.
If i change the password for the user , its says can`t run password program.


Can you please help me.

thanks in advance.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

A "no shell" at login means that no shell interpreter is specified in /etc/passwd for the user in question.

...JRF...

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi
Is this happening for all users?

I the "can`t run password program" error for you on passwowd change or the user?

[blessing]

hie , the passwd file looks okay , the shell part is there.
This is happaning to all user execpt root , and even new users i add.

This is part of my passwd file
cdwadm:*:112:100:adduser,980304.10.55:/appl/regional/cdw:/bin/ksh
informix:*:100:100:,,,:/opt/informix:/usr/bin/ksh
sisusr:*:1003:100:adduser,980507.10.22:/appl/regional/sis/sis:/usr/bin/sh
ljongwe:*:1005:20:adduser,981023.14.39:/backups/ljongwe:/usr/bin/sh

all these users and the rest can`t login.
please suggest what i can do.

[David Watts]

do you have any additional security software running on the box ? that may link in an improved passwd binary? Have you tried running /usr/sbin/pwck on the password file ?

If you have a shell interpreter defined, is it one of the default shells or have you got an /etc/shells files that defines allowable shells ? Check man page for getusershell for the default shells.

[Alan Riggs]

hmmm -- okay, eliminate the obbvious first:

Is /usr mounted?
If you change a user's shell to /sbin/sh can they login successfully?
Do the /usr/bin/[ksh|csh|sh|] files exist with proper permissions (555).

[blessing]

/usr is mounted okay , if i change the shell for a user to /sbin/sh it still says no shell.


Whats the hell is it.

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi

I am going to ask the obvious,

1. Were any changes made to hardware/software immediately before this problem occurred?
2. Have you had a look at the system log files?
3. As root can log in can you create another root level user and can that user log in?
4. Are all the other users running to the same .profile?
5. Who else has the sort of access to the system that might have made a system level change.
6. Is it a permissions problem?

Just a few ideas that may or not help - apologies for stating the obvious but occasionally we all get the "Wood from the trees" syndrome.

Paula

[blessing]

hie guys , i unconverted my system to non -trusted ,
tried to login as root and it gave me this error
Your password has expired.
Choose a new onecrt0: ERROR couldn't open /usr/lib/dld.sl errno:000000013
what is this , i tried to login with another users login and it gave me
/usr/bin/login no found.

What to do.

[blessing]

hie guys , just to let you no i have fixed that problem it was the permissions on /
somehow , they where changed to 644 from 755 .
Thanks all for your help.