Hi,

I'm by no means a newbie here, but I just ran into something (simple?) I can't solve.

I have a Mandrake 9.2 box for my research with student (user) accounts. For a while, my account has been the only one on the machine and all has been well...

However, in creating new account yesterday for a new student in a new group, I tested the log in (tcsh), and found that I could not execute nearly anything "normal" (such as date, ls, etc.). Thinking it was a path issue, I saw the path was set correctly.

I struggled with this for a long time, and eventually set the shell to bash, which my (personal) account uses. Now, that user can execute a command, but when I tried to do a 'man' on a command (say 'man date'), the man pages find nothing.

I have no idea what the hell is going on here, but something weird certainly is.

Can this be an msec thing? How do I determine the current "level" of security I'm currently in, so that I can poke around with the settings?

What other things might I be missing? Does the new group need to have special permissions for basic fundamental activities? I've never run across this before...

(Also, I need to set up quotas for the newest users. How do I go about this? Is it a kernel switch/recompile? Is it a rpm? The machine does not run a window server, so I interface with it via the command line.)