[redhat-lspp] /home at SystemHigh

Janak Desai janak at us.ibm.com
Thu Feb 23 22:27:10 UTC 2006


I don't think you can keep /home at SystemHigh if you expect any of
your users to work at anything lower than SystemHigh. Users attempting
to login at lower levels will not be able to get to their home directories
because chdir() in login will not let them go past /home.

-Janak

Linda Knippers wrote:

>/home at SystemHigh also makes useradd not work.  If the admin
>is running at SystemHigh, its possible to create the home directory
>but not update the passwd/shadow files.  If the admin is running
>at SystemLow, then its possible to update the passwd/shadow files
>but not create the home directory.
>
>Does /home need to be SystemHigh?
>
>-- ljk
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>Daniel J Walsh wrote:
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>>Causes all Shell startup to fail.
>>
>># bash
>>bash: /home/dwalsh/.bashrc : Permission denied
>>
>>Looks like bash does a search starting at /home for its path.  Gets a
>>denied because it is not allowed to read SystemHigh.
>>What should I do?
>>
>>Bash continues to work, but every login  gets this nasty error and the
>>.bashrc file is never read.
>>
>>Dan
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