On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Joe Laffey wrote:

> My NetBSD box (1.4.2 locked up when I tried to do an rsync of the root
> directory (everything) over to my linux box. I rebooted it and, though
> everything works fine as root, I cannot do anything as a regular user.
> When I try to login I get "No home directory /home/joe!" But this
> directory _IS_ there and I can list it as root. The mode of /home is 755
> and of /home/joe is 755 joe.users.
>
> I try to su to joe as root and I get /bin/csh permission denied.

You might see similar symptoms if the root directory were unreadable to
non-root users.

What are the permissions on / ?  (ls -ld /)
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Tod McQuillin