[TriLUG] su: can not run bin bash, no such file or directory

[Owen Berry]

Is it possible that this error actually means that the user has no home
directory? You'll need that for ssh access anyway.

--
Owen

On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 07:53:25PM -0700, Chris Bullock wrote:
> I do not want to chroot the user, just want the user to be able to ssh in
> to execute vacation.  bin/bash is in etc shells
> user:x:605:605:User Name:/home/user:/bin/bash
> 
> --- Jon Carnes <jonc at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> > If you are chrooting the user then you will need to create a /bin inside
> > the chroot and copy bash into it. 
> > Also check that "/bin/bash" is in /etc/shells
> > look at the file permissions on /bin/bash
> > 
> > Post the line from your /etc/passwd file
> > 
> > Jon
> > 
> > On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 13:44, Chris Bullock wrote:
> > > postfix mail server running some flavor of red hat 7.x, I have a user
> > I
> > > wish to execute the vacation command.  I change /etc/password to let
> > the
> > > user have a /bin/bash shell instead of /bin/false, but when I try to
> > su to
> > > the users acct I get the following error "su: can not run /bin/bash,
> > no
> > > such file or directory"  bash is installed and I currently use it for
> > my
> > > user.  I have tried to change to another shell and the error remains
> > the
> > > same substituting the shell I give the user.
> > > Any ideas?
> > > Regards,
> > > Chris
> > >