No shell

[Luis Hétor Desachy]

Hi I need you help!!
I've a user in hpux 11.i and when she/he try to access the message appears.
"no shell"
"Connection closed by foreign host"

I verified the permission in /etc/passwd /etc/group /usr/bin/sh /bin/sh, etc.

what append.

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

Start by verifying that no one has played around with directory permissions:

drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 8192 Apr 4 08:51 //
dr-xr-xr-x 31 bin bin 8192 Apr 9 18:48 /etc/
dr-xr-xr-x 24 bin bin 8192 Feb 28 08:09 /usr/

Don't change these permissions.

/bin does not exist and hasn't for more than 10 years. It is a transition link so to avoid problems in the future, it should not be used in scripts or in /etc/passwd. The shells are located in /usr/bin.

If the above are OK, use su - username and see what happens. Also check: logins -x -l username

[lawrenzo]

the line in /etc/password should be something like:

:*:35380:102::/home1/c/:/usr/bin/ksh.

the /usr/bin/ksh or /usr/bin/sh should be present here as this denotes which shell the user should use at login.

if this is missing type:

# usermod -s /usr/bin/sh

HTH

[Alex Lavrov.]

Also verufy that the shell appears as valid shell in /etc/shells file.

[Deepak Kulkarni]

Hi Luis Hétor Desachy

Can you please paste the /etc/passwd. Or See that the shell exists in the /etc/passwd file.

Thanks
D K

[Betty Fessler]

I just had this happen also and it was a space at the end of the p/w for the id.
The id had been manually entered into /etc/passwd through vi, not sam.

The entry must end on the last letter of the shell, not one space over.

[Sorrel G. Jakins]

Luis,

The preceding responses ought to have solved your problem. If you are still having problems, then
grep /etc/passwd
and paste / post the result here.

Betty,
Repeat aloud ten times
"I must never vi /etc/passwd"
If it is not you, then go find who it is and rap them over the fingers with a 2-by-4

[Kent Ostby]

also you can run pwck and see if there are other problems in (for instance) a previous line of the password file, that need to be fixed.