Problem with permissions for the /etc/profile for unprivileged users.

Exeis · 03-24-2008, 03:07 PM

I built a LFS system using LFS-6.3 Book from www.linuxfromscratch.org.
I am now going though the BLFS 6.2 book. After setting up the Bash Shell Startup files, unprivileged users cannot access the /etc/profile made by root. The /etc/profile has its permissions, owner, and group is set to -rw-r--r-- root root. Whenever an unprivileged user logs in, they get a message before the prompt appears: "/etc/profile: Permission Denied". How do I fix this?

tronayne · 03-24-2008, 04:38 PM

Do a long list of your root directory; i.e.,

Code:

ls -l /

The /etc directory should be

Code:

drwxr-xr-x  70 root root   5904 2008-03-24 16:47 etc/

That is, mode 755. If it isn't, there's your problem.

The profile file should be as you have stated.

The only other thing that might -- might -- be a problem is if something in /etc/profile is not public readable or public executable. Look at the file and check the permissions of anything that executes (surrounded by ``).