The names maybe correct, but have you checked the userid in the passwd file
to make sure that you don't accidently have two bmike1s? (say a bad editing
of the passwd file..)

On 10/24/06, bmike101@cox.net <bmike101@cox.net> wrote:
>
> 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?
>
> -----
> 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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