su: no shell error

[John McWilliams]

When logging in to a HP9000 the message
no shell appears. We are running the ksh. The path and permissions are all correct.
root is fine to login in with.
any helpwould be appreciated

[John McWilliams]

I fixed the problem by changing the permissions of / to 755

[John McWilliams]

I fixed the problem by changing the permissions of / to 755

[Bill Hassell]

Be very careful about changing permissions on HP-UX directories. The no-shell symptom is only a small sample of the things that go wrong with wrong permissions on /, /opt, /var, /usr, /sbin and so on. Top level directories are (in general) 755 and owned by root. More than a few sysadmins have spent hours with strange symptoms after 'improving' directory permissions.