Thanks to all who helped me to solve this.
Simply I was looking too much at the permissions of the home dir of that
user
forgetting completely to look at if all the path was accessible by it.
Emanuele De Fazio wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I've got a problem:
> I have created a new user editing (vipw) /etc/passwd:
> zen:RjeHQsc173QeU:196:125:Baan Zeno Service
> Center:/baanc2/baan/bse/home/zen:/bin/ksh
>
> I have created then its home directory that now looks like this:
> drwxr-x--x 3 zen bsp 8192 Feb 9 2000
> /baanc2/baan/bse/home/zen
>
> Then:
> # su - zen
> No directory
> #
>
> If I try with:
> # su zen
>
> it works
>
> # ls -l passwd*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root system 20188 Jun 4 11:31 /etc/passwd
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root system 4096 Jun 4 11:31 /etc/passwd.dir
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root system 117760 Jun 4 11:31 /etc/passwd.pag
>
> I've tried anyway /usr/sbin/mkpasswd /etc/passwd, but nothing.
>
> using telnet...same thing...No Directory.
>
> Can anybody help me?
>
> Thanks
>
> Bye
>
> P.S.: I'm using Digital UNIX V4.0F (Rev. 1229)
>
> -------------------------------
> *Emanuele De Fazio*
> Gestione Sistemi Client/Server Unix
> Sema Group S.p.A.
> Viale Carlo Viola, 76
> 11026 Pont Saint Martin (AO)
> Italy
>
> Phone: + 39.0125.810373
> E-Mail: Emanuele.Defazio_at_semagroup.it
Received on Mon Jun 04 2001 - 12:15:54 NZST