David Brownlee wrote:

>         can you 'cd ~user' from a root shell?
>         Does the user own the homedir, and what are the permissions on
>         it, and each entry in the path (does the user have read and
>         execute permissions on all, plus write on the homedir).
>

Yes to all!

One other thing - when trying to 'su <user>', whichever shell is assigned to
<user>, the message '/bin/<shell> permission denied' is displayed. This is
definitely not a permissions problem - all permissions are as they should be.

regards,
Dave

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