No shell

[dssops]

Had a power outage on a SUN E6000 box yesterday and since them have not been able to su - oracle, get the following error -

# su - oracle
su: No shell
#

Have searched unsuccessfully to find the way around this but no luck yet, grateful of any help.

 

[Annihilannic]

What shell is defined for the "oracle" user in /etc/passwd (the last entry on the line).

Does that file exist? Is it a valid executable?

Annihilannic.

 

[ProudToBeLeeds]

I created a user with the following entry


test2:x:1021:10::/export/home/test2:/usr/bn/bash

*Note the misspelling of bin !


I then did
# pwconv
# su - test2
su: No shell
#


Hey Presto ! Same error
Changed the line to

test2:x:1021:10::/export/home/test2:/usr/bin/bash

# pwconv
# su - test2
bash-2.03$

Usually if your missing a value from somewhere pwconv will give you this error

pwconv: ERROR: bad entry or blank line at line 26 in /etc/passwd
pwconv: Unexpected failure. Conversion not done.

So basically check the path for the shell that your assiging to the user.