"bash: /etc/profile: Permission denied" with a certain user

Matthew Woehlke mw_triad@users.sourceforge.net
Mon Dec 11 19:44:00 GMT 2006


Tim Largy wrote:
> Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> When you checked /etc/group, did you also check /etc/passwd?
> 
> Yes. I'm attaching my /etc/passwd and /etc/group (after editing to
> protect the privacy of users). See anything unusual? The account that
> can't run Cygwin is called team-member.

Nothing obvious, no. My first guess would have been that the user isn't 
*in* /etc/passwd, but...

The entry in question looks OK to cursory inspection. Hopefully someone 
else has a better idea.

-- 
Matthew
"Lost a planet, Obi Wan has? How embarrassing..."
  -- Yoda (Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones)


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