<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> FS wrote: <blockquote cite="midddac487905042811141cc52988@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 4/28/05, Rick Stevens <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:rstevens@vitalstream.com"><rstevens@vitalstream.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">FS wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hello all, I set up a new FC1 machine yesterday and created a user "newuser" using "adduser newuser" and changed its password. When I try to ssh to the said account, it doesn't work. The connection opens, accepts my password and then closes instantly. Trying to "su - newuser" or "su newuser" result in a "could not open session" Interestingly enough, FTP does work! </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Uh, yeah. Tell me, did you use the "-m" option to adduser? If not, then the new user doesn't have a home directory unless you created one for him separately and used the "-d" option to adduser to specify what it was. And if you did that, don't forget you must change the ownership and group for the user's home directory to the new user's UID and GID or it won't work properly. If you did it properly: # adduser -m newuser If you have to do it separately: # adduser newuser # cat /etc/passwd | grep newuser # mkdir /home/newuser # chown newuser:newusergroup /home/newuser The "cat" command dumps the /etc/passwd entry for the new user so you can get the user's home directory and group. You use that data in the last two commands. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Googling seems to point to permissions problem but I can't figure out where or what. The /etc/passwd is 644, /etc/group is 644 and /etc/shadow is 600 </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">It's referring to the user's home directory, not the permissions on passwd or group. Remember, FTP doesn't have an issue if the user's home directory doesn't exist because there's no shell involved with FTP. ssh IS a shell and as such, REQUIRES a home directory with valid permissions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rstevens@vitalstream.com">rstevens@vitalstream.com</a> - - VitalStream, Inc. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.vitalstream.com">http://www.vitalstream.com</a> - - - - Animal testing is futile. They always get nervous and give the - - wrong answers - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Rick -- Thanks for responding. You're right. I did not use the -m option, but when I checked, the adduser process had somehow created the home directory automatically and gave it proper permissions. Please take a look below. Should these be something else? root@c7504s98 /home$ ls -al total 16 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Apr 28 12:44 . drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Apr 27 15:29 .. drwx------ 2 newuser newuser 4096 Apr 28 13:20 newuser root@c7504s98 /home$ ls -al newuser total 28 drwx------ 2 newuser newuser 4096 Apr 28 13:20 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Apr 28 12:44 .. -rw------- 1 newuser newuser 21 Apr 28 13:21 .bash_history -rwxr--r-- 1 newuser newuser 24 Apr 28 12:44 .bash_logout -rwxr--r-- 1 newuser newuser 191 Apr 28 12:44 .bash_profile -rwxr--r-- 1 newuser newuser 281 Apr 28 12:44 .bashrc -rwxr--r-- 1 newuser newuser 120 Apr 28 12:44 .gtkrc root@c7504s98 /home$ Thanks, Faisal </pre> </blockquote> It seems that permissions are OK. Howevwr there may be problem with a user shell - ssh and su do need working user shell (FTP does not). What is the shell for that user as shown in /etc/passwd? That value should point to a shell program (such as bash or sh) accessible and executable by that user. It is also possible that you have a problem with PAM configuration for su and ssh. Alexey Fadyushin Brainbench MVP for Linux. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.brainbench.com">http://www.brainbench.com</a> </body> </html>