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I am using Redhat 9 and am somewhat of a newbie. I have a bash menu script i am trying to execute for some users. I have given the script the correct permissions and ownership, and set the shell to /bin/scriptname in the passwd file, but when i log on as one of these users i just get:
/bin/scriptname: Permission Denied
I can't figure out what i have missed. Any help would be appreciated.
It has execute permissions. I think it may have something to do with /root/.bashrc as i dont want the script to be executed as root, and the bash commands in the script seem to need access to /root/.bashrc.
I am wandering if there is something else that needs to happen because the shell information in the password file is (now) /usr/local/bin/scriptname instead of /bin/bash??
If i execute the script as root it works perfectly? Its only when i log in with a user that is set to run the script instead of /bin/bash??
You probably don't want a generic login script trying to run /root/.bashrc. What you probably want to do is change the invocation of /root/.bashrc to $HOME/.bashrc.
If a user other than root logs in, the script can't run /root/.bashrc, which is private to root.
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