[SOLVED] [URGENT] No user is getting access to system except root

vatzcar · 06-18-2010, 04:39 PM

Hello,

I have a system running with few users and servers (apache/mysql/postfix). After extracting one tar archive in '/home' none of my users are being able to access their home directory. Even other system users (like www-data/mysql) are also not being able to access any directory. Only root can access the system. I have checked file permissions, many files/directories are set to 777 rest are 755.

Please help

tredegar · 06-18-2010, 04:45 PM

Perhaps you have run out of disk space.
Login as root.
Then post the output of df -h

vatzcar · 06-18-2010, 05:02 PM

Thank you for reply. But I have plenty of disk space left. result of df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md1 365G 107G 241G 31% /
tmpfs 991M 0 991M 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 10M 44K 10M 1% /dev
tmpfs 991M 0 991M 0% /dev/shm

I'm not sure, will running out of disk space prevent users to access his/her home directory? Here's a line from login shell for one user after login,

Could not chdir to home directory /home/xxxxx: Permission denied

and users are getting landed on '/' (root)

tredegar · 06-18-2010, 05:26 PM

Quote:

I'm not sure, will running out of disk space prevent users to access his/her home directory?

It certainly will, but you seem to have plenty of space, so that may not be the problem.

Quote:

Here's a line from login shell for one user after login,
Could not chdir to home directory /home/xxxxx: Permission denied

OK. You "extracted a tar archive in /home". Then everything went wrong.
What, exactly was this "tar archive" an archive of?

And what is the output of

Code:

ls -l /home

?

vatzcar · 06-18-2010, 05:41 PM

Errr..... somehow the /home directory changed to 750

Thank you tredegar for your help

tredegar · 06-18-2010, 05:53 PM

You are welcome.

But I think, that for your own peace of mind, you need to work out just how and why the (permissions for) "the /home directory changed to 750"

That way, you are unlikely to repeat the mistake