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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <replies-lists-redhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx> > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > 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@xxxxxxxxx> >> > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >> > 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@xxxxxxxxx> >> >> > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >> >> > 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, >> >> > >> >> ---------- End Original Message ----------
