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Re: login: no shell: /bin/bash: Permission denied
- From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 10:14:33 +0100
- Subject: Re: login: no shell: /bin/bash: Permission denied
- References: <m3eliylhc2.fsf@appel.lilypond.org>
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 12:34:21AM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just encountered this strange error message from login:
>
> 00:17:39 fred@appel:~$ ssh fred@abbicci
> Last login: Tue Mar 5 21:57:38 2002 from appel.flower
> Fanfare!!!
> You are successfully logged in to this server!!!
> fred@ABBICCI ~$ login root
> Password:
> Last login: Tue Mar 5 23:21:09 on tty2
> Fanfare!!!
> You are successfully logged in to this server!!!
> login: no shell: /bin/bash: Permission denied
> fred@ABBICCI ~$ ls -l /bin/bash.exe
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 Administ Geen 478720 Feb 19 19:14 /bin/bash.exe
> fred@ABBICCI ~$ who
> root tty2 Mar 5 23:21
> fred@ABBICCI ~$ echo $USER
> fred
> fred@ABBICCI ~$ echo $LOGNAME
> fred
> fred@ABBICCI ~$ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 ABBICCI 1.3.10(0.51/3/2) 2002-02-25 11:14 i686 unknown
>
> ? But it worked anyway, so it seems. This is on a fresh, curr cygwin
> install.
No, it didn't work. `who' isn't the right way to get your current
user name, try `id'. Basically, login is doing the following:
execlp(pwd->pw_shell, tbuf, 0);
fprintf(stderr, "login: no shell: ");
perror(pwd->pw_shell);
exit(0);
So, if it couldn't execute the shell, it emits the above error
message.
The problem you're seeing results from your inability to change
the user context. You can't do it, your account doesn't have the
permission. That's normal. See /usr/doc/Cygwin/login.README.
Corinna
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