So I rebooted but that didn't help any. Infact it made it worse! It wouldn't boot. So I stuck a live disk in and chmod 777 but it still wouldn't boot! Would someone look at my box if I bring it to the meeting tonight? Whic way from bell would I drive, north or south?

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Okay: here is what Is happening  in bash starting from a root user:

	root@2[/]# su
	root@2[/]# su bmike1
	bash: /home/bmike1/.bashrc: Permission denied
	bmike1@2[/]$ ls -l /home/bmike1/.bashrc
	ls: /home/bmike1/.bashrc: Permission denied
	bmike1@2[/]$ ls -l /home/bmike1/
	ls: /home/bmike1/Desktop: Permission denied
	[truncate]
	ls: /home/bmike1/hs_err_pid16598.log: Permission denied
	total 0
	bmike1@2[/]$ chmod 670 /home/bmike1/.bashrc
	chmod: failed to get attributes of `/home/bmike1/.bashrc': Permission 	
		denied
	bmike1@2[/]$

I then checked the user and it seems to have switched users even though it said permission denied.

	bmike1@2[/]$ su
	Password:
	root@2[/]# ls -l /home/bmike1/.bashrc
	-rwxrwxrwx1  bmike1  bmike1  123 2006-10-23 18:43 /home/bmike1/.bashrc
	root@2[/]#

So as we can see the owner setting is correct and permisions seem to be a bit open. Which lead me to think that maybe maybe the directory bmike1's permissions 

	root@2[/]# ls -l /home/
	total 32
	drw-rw-rw-   57 bmike1   bmike1       4096 2006-10-23 18:43 bmike1
	[truncate]
	root@2[/]#

Is that the problem? the 'others bit is an empty set? I remember that directory permissions are slightly differant.

	root@2[/]# chmod 771 /home/bmike1
	root@2[/]# su bmike1
	bmike1@2[/]$

It seems as if that was the problem. I'll save this as a draft and reboot.... Let's see what happens!

That 
---- Kenneth <madhse@yahoo.com> wrote: 
> --- bmike101@cox.net wrote:
> 
> > I have a slight problem. I can't load my user.
> > The root GUI will load. So I open a terminal emulator (te) and type 
> > 	su <user>
> > With the return reply :
> >  	Password:
> > funny, I thought root te was automatically superuser. I enter it in any
> > case with the response:
> > 	su: Authentication failure
> > 	bash: /home/<user>.bashrc: Permission denied
> 
> Are you saying from a root command prompt, you type su <user> and it doesn't
> work?  If that's the case, I don't remember seeing a setup that would ask for
> a password, but it could be a PAM thing or something.
> 
> 
> > So I think, ';Check the settins of this file:
> > root@2[bmike1]# ls -la |more
> > 	total 636
> > 	[truncate]
> > 	-rwxrwxrwx    1 bmike1   bmike1        123 2006-10-23 21:43 .bashrc
> 
> Maybe permissions on the directory?  Or some security thing doesn't like the
> fact that the .bashrc is writable by everyone?  Again, I haven't seen that
> but I would check it. I know some things are set to not run if config files
> have loose permissions (ssh is one of those).
> 
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