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Old 08-08-2006, 09:46 AM   #1
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cannot execute bash: permission denied


hi...i get the above error when i try to login as root...which as you can imagine is really not very good!!
my .bash_profile is also not the same..it almost has nothing in it...about 3 lines..thats it.
ive chmod 755 for the .bash_profile and .bashrc files...and checked lib and bin and they r all ok... even the /bin/bash has 755 mode.
any ideas?
 
Old 08-08-2006, 10:00 AM   #2
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the $PATH is probably bad. Try setting it correctly in .bashrc
 
Old 08-08-2006, 11:10 AM   #3
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ok..i'm not sure exactly how to..
i checked PATH with echo...and it gave a long line of /sr/bin:/usr/sbin ...
within .bashrc..i dont know if there is a PATH..
could you gimme some more details.
 
Old 08-08-2006, 11:51 AM   #4
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As a normal user, try to determine where the binary is for bash with

Code:
which bash
That command will return the path to the version of bash that you use as a normal user.

Then, as root

Code:
echo $PATH
Check to see if this path includes the path to bash you found earlier. If it doesn't, your root's path is bad and you should add the path to your bash binary to your path.
 
Old 08-08-2006, 12:03 PM   #5
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Agrouf
the $PATH is probably bad. Try setting it correctly in .bashrc
I think the path should be set in /etc/profile or maybe in .bash_profile but not in .bashrc.

(bashrc is not read on login shells)
Quote:
if [ "`id -u`" -eq 0 ]; then
PATH="/root/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"
else
PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games"
fi

Last edited by nx5000; 08-08-2006 at 12:04 PM.
 
Old 08-08-2006, 12:05 PM   #6
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^
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that is true.
 
Old 08-08-2006, 01:00 PM   #7
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i tried that..
when i put which bash...it said /bin/bash
so i added /bin: to the front of my PATH in the etc/profile file as well as the .bash_profile file.
Still not being allowed.
 
Old 08-08-2006, 01:14 PM   #8
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Have you checked the permissions on /bin/bash?

Try this:

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ls -lag /bin/bash
Please post the result of this command.
 
Old 08-08-2006, 01:16 PM   #9
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ya...ive chmoded just about everything to 755
 
Old 08-08-2006, 01:57 PM   #10
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This may not fix your current problem, but you probably don't want a binary to be writable by anyone, not even root, since that allows the binary to become corrupt.

You'd probably be better off changing the permissions of /bin/bash to 555.

Also, what are the permissions on /bin, the directory?

Try

Code:
ls -ld /bin
 
Old 08-08-2006, 03:25 PM   #11
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yeah...theyre all executable by all and readable by all...
i think i just overly messed up..playing too much in root..
think ill just re-install.
thanks for you help. good stuff
 
Old 11-12-2007, 10:49 AM   #12
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Had this same exact issue. Turns out the /etc dir was 700 so chmod to 755 and everything was fine.

Hope this helps someone out!

Chris
 
  


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