su: no shell 1

[tomecki24]

Hello,

I'm working on Solaris 7. I cannot login as normal user remotely, because after entering user and password connection is lost. I can connect as root. When I try to switch to another user, for example:
su - john
it says: "su: no shell".
When I try to use login command from root account it says: "no utmpx entry".
How can I fix it?
Please, help

Tomasz

 

[KenCunningham]

One possibility for the no shell problem might be that the user's entry in /etc/passwd has a non-existant or corrupted entry for the user shell. Check this out and amend it if need be. Hope this helps.

 

[tomecki24]

Hello,

Thanks but it's not it.
I couldn't log as any user, not only one, specified.
Root was the oly one user, that could login.

But strange thing happened. After a while (maybe 3-4 hours) I can normally login as john, as well as any other user.
I work a litle with root account, but didn't change any file. And now it's allright.

what happens here?
Thanks
Tomasz

 

[KenCunningham]

Curiouser and curiouser. I don't suppose you have any process running that creates an /etc/nologin entry for it's duration, then deletes it once finished? Perhaps someone with a broader knowledge of utmpx might be able to help further. Regards.