Users can not login, only root

[ap1605]

Help: users can not login, only root.
When i do a su to an user the follow message appear:
setlocale: Permission denied
You are not allowed to run a SHELL !!!!

 

[fredericofonseca]

and would you be so kind as to tell us what is your Unix vendor and version....

Regards

Frederico Fonseca
SysSoft Integrated Ltd

http://www.syssoft-int.com

 

[p5wizard]

If setlocale is a command, I would check the permissions on it. Compare to a box that does work?

HTH,

p5wizard

 

[ap1605]

We are running AIX 5.3. ML2.
We saw the permissions of / where different. Only the message now is:
setlocale: Permission denied
userid is unknown

 

[KenCunningham]

How have the permissions on / become different?

 

[p5wizard]

Check the permissions on /usr/sbin/getty

should be -r-sr-xr-x
owner root
group security

There should be three names for this file (link count of 3)

# ls -li /usr/sbin/getty /usr/sbin/tsm /usr/sbin/login
 4953 -r-sr-xr-x   3 root     security      59826 Nov 19 2003  /usr/sbin/getty
 4953 -r-sr-xr-x   3 root     security      59826 Nov 19 2003  /usr/sbin/login
 4953 -r-sr-xr-x   3 root     security      59826 Nov 19 2003  /usr/sbin/tsm

But if someone/something has been altering permissions on system files, expect more trouble than this one alone... I'd go and hunt for the mksysb tape :-(


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[ap1605]

Thanks for the answers. We have put the systembackup on the system. Everything looks fine now.