When issuing su - login (I have 5 logins on my server), except for root, I got the following error : "No Directory!" But directories for users exist! And they got the good rights. For example, my user maint : cat /etc/passwd | grep maint maint:x:102:0:Maintenance Arca-Network:/home/maint:/bin/bash ls -al /home | grep maint drwxrwxrwx 2 maint root 512 Nov 3 13:45 maint su - maint No directory! Can someone help me to understand? Is it a problem regarding patches? Thanks, Drice from France PS : on my others servers it works fine!!!

su maint or su - maint The second one is wrong

Add the -m flag to your useradd command. i.e useradd -d /home/maint -m maint This tells the OS to create the home directory.

I had a similar problem once, but the message was "no shell". Anyway, in my experience, the permissions on the / directory was wrong. Only root could log in ... no one else and even root could not su to the id. The permissions were drwx------ for / I chenged it to: drwxr-xr-x This fixed it. Your problem is a little different. YOu are getting "No Directory!". I would check the permissions on all the directories above the actual directories. If any of them have the permissions that cause my problem exist ... it could do just what you are experiencing. Good Luck Denny