>Just wondering:  have you checked that the shell specified for the users
>is accessible?  and that it is listed in /etc/shells?
>

Yep, that all checks out...

The ktrace of the su command shows it gets the "Permission denied" error 
when accessing the home dir. But this was a good thing to check for, I 
had taken it for granted that was all right. And I was right (for once).

Thanks though :)

-- Josh Hope