On Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 01:54:01PM -0400, Josh Hope wrote:
> >> It's becoming frustrating :) Out of all the great minds out there, 
> >> there's gotta be an answer *somewhere*.
> >
> >I haven't been following this too closely, so apologies if you've seen
> >these before...
> >
> > + Can you cd to the home directory (as any user)?  If so, the following
> >   will print out all the intermediate directories:
> 
> I can't cd to it as any user because the machine won't let me login as 
> any user, just as root. But yes, as root I can cd to /home so I suppose 
> that counts :)

Perhaps /etc/passwd is brocken? Pointing to a false homedir?
Try "finger" to verify the homedir for a user 

CU
   Matthias
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