strange and serious problem about user login

[Zhen Zhou]

Hi,
Thanks very much for your help, it seems that it works as you
suggested--now I could login as normal user without errors. And one
service I could start--just chmod +r /etc/. -R. now i am fighting with
ssh server. ;-(

This happened when I are curious to make rpm package, now is there a
way to recover the mess-up permissions from last stupid change?

Thanks a lot,

Zhou Zhen
On 6/26/06, replies-lists-redhat at listmail.innovate.net
<replies-lists-redhat at listmail.innovate.net> wrote:
> let me rephrase my question:
>
> what are the permissions on the /etc/ directory? i.e., at / issue the
> command:
>
>    ls -ld etc
>
> the /etc/ directory should be read+execute group+other (as well as
> owner, of course).
>
> most (but not all) directories under /etc/ should have those same
> permissions and most files should be read group+other.
>
> from what you indicated in your last response, it would appear that the
> permissions on things *in* your /etc/ directory don't have the correct
> permissions. if something happened to reset the permissions under
> /etc/, then there's probably a reasonable chance that things are messed
> up in other directories too.
>
>
>
> ------------ Original Message ------------
> > Date: Monday, June 26, 2006 01:24:50 PM +0800
> > From: Zhen Zhou <zhouzhenzj at gmail.com>
> > To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: strange and serious problem about user login
> >
> > Most files and directories in /etc/ are root ownership, and the files
> > are -rw------- , and directories is drw-r-----.
> >
> > Zhou Zhen
> > On 6/26/06,wrote:
> >> what are the permissions on /etc/ ?
> >>
> >>
> >> ------------ Original Message ------------
> >> > Date: Monday, June 26, 2006 01:01:09 PM +0800
> >> > From: Zhen Zhou <zhouzhenzj at gmail.com>
> >> > To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> >> > Subject: Re: strange and serious problem about user login
> >> >
> >> > Hi,
> >> > Thanks for your quickly reply, but I still confused about your
> >> > mentioned.
> >> >
> >> > I took a look at /etc/ directory, but i couldn't find any problem
> >> > on that.
> >> > ls -l:
> >> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 842 May 25 2004 profile
> >> > so is it not correct?
> >> >
> >> > I could understannd what you told me that maybe I messed up
> >> > permissions on this system.
> >> >
> >> > And I need to provide what kind more information that could help to
> >> > trace the problem,
> >> >
> >> > Anyway, any tips will be welcome,
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Zhou Zhen
> >> >
> >> > On 6/26/06,  wrote:
> >> >> based on the little info that you've provided, it sounds like you
> >> >> may have messed up permissions on your /etc/ directory.
> >> >>
> >> >> in general, the /etc/ directory (and it's contents) is
> >> >> owned.grouped by root.root with "group" and "other" having read
> >> >> and execute (as appropriate) access to most files. e.g.,
> >> >> group/other should have read access to /etc/profile .
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> ------------ Original Message ------------
> >> >> > Date: Monday, June 26, 2006 11:19:40 AM +0800
> >> >> > From: Zhen Zhou <zhouzhenzj at gmail.com>
> >> >> > To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> >> >> > Subject: strange and serious problem about user login
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Hi, all,
> >> >> > I am using Fedora 3, today I found serious problem, I couldn't
> >> >> > start any service other than root.
> >> >> > and I try to login as normal user except root, the teminal show
> >> >> > me: --bash: /etc/profile: Permission denied
> >> >> > --bash: 3.00$
> >> >> >
> >> >> > and when I start sshd in this pc, I get no errors, but when I
> >> >> > check the status of sshd,
> >> >> > it showed me: sshd dead but subsys locked
> >> >> >
> >> >> > When I login as root in terminal without any problem, but I
> >> >> > keyin: su normal-user
> >> >> > I got error: could not open session
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I guess, maybe the user manage got problem, but I dodn't know
> >> >> > how to solve the problem.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Thanks a lot for any tips,
> >> >> >
> >>
> >>
>
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