[Solved] su: /bin/bash: Permission denied

kcholakov · 2010-09-26 14:42:24

New user created as:

groupadd mygroup
useradd -s /bin/bash -g myuser -m -k /dev/null myuser

When trying to log in:

[root@baraka ~]# su - myuser
su: /bin/bash: Permission denied

Solution:

chmod 755 /
chmod 755 /bin

[root@baraka ~]# su - myuser
[myuser@baraka ~]$

Allan · 2010-09-26 14:48:37

Umm... that solution seems weird...

kcholakov · 2010-09-26 14:53:21

Do you have a better one? If yes, put it here please. Thanks.

Allan · 2010-09-26 15:05:10

My point was that if / and /bin were not 755 permission already then you would have had a lot more issues than that. Is that the only thing you did to fix the issue?

kcholakov · 2010-09-26 15:08:47

The same for /home, but this does not matter for "su /bin/bash: Permission denied" error...I guess.

Last edited by kcholakov (2010-09-26 15:10:49)

karol · 2010-09-26 15:20:21

'-m -k /dev/null' ? Could this be the problem? Or maybe something wrong with the sudoers file?

kcholakov · 2010-09-26 15:39:17

No, I also tried creating the user without these options. Also once from the KUser application. The result was the same.

Last edited by kcholakov (2010-09-26 15:39:51)

karol · 2010-09-26 15:47:15

kcholakov wrote:

No, I also tried creating the user without these options. Also once from the KUser application. The result was the same.

Did you install Arch as a regular system or is it a more fancy setup: virtual machine, liveUSB and whatnot?

kcholakov · 2010-09-26 16:00:20

It is as a regular system. Maybe I did something in the past causing this behavior, which I do not remember now. Anyway, that helped me for now.

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