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Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 10:14:33 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: login: no shell: /bin/bash: Permission denied
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On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 12:34:21AM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just encountered this strange error message from login:
> 
>     00:17:39 fred AT appel:~$ ssh fred AT abbicci
>     Last login: Tue Mar  5 21:57:38 2002 from appel.flower
>     Fanfare!!!
>     You are successfully logged in to this server!!!
>     fred AT ABBICCI ~$ login root
>     Password:
>     Last login: Tue Mar  5 23:21:09 on tty2
>     Fanfare!!!
>     You are successfully logged in to this server!!!
>     login: no shell: /bin/bash: Permission denied
>     fred AT ABBICCI ~$ ls -l /bin/bash.exe
>     -rwxr-xr-x    1 Administ Geen       478720 Feb 19 19:14 /bin/bash.exe
>     fred AT ABBICCI ~$ who
>     root     tty2     Mar  5 23:21
>     fred AT ABBICCI ~$ echo $USER
>     fred
>     fred AT ABBICCI ~$ echo $LOGNAME
>     fred
>     fred AT ABBICCI ~$ uname -a
>     CYGWIN_NT-5.1 ABBICCI 1.3.10(0.51/3/2) 2002-02-25 11:14 i686 unknown
> 
> ?  But it worked anyway, so it seems.  This is on a fresh, curr cygwin
> install.

No, it didn't work.  `who' isn't the right way to get your current
user name, try `id'.  Basically, login is doing the following:

  execlp(pwd->pw_shell, tbuf, 0);
  fprintf(stderr, "login: no shell: ");
  perror(pwd->pw_shell);
  exit(0);

So, if it couldn't execute the shell, it emits the above error
message.

The problem you're seeing results from your inability to change
the user context.  You can't do it, your account doesn't have the
permission.  That's normal.  See /usr/doc/Cygwin/login.README.

Corinna

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