[XCSSA] Pecular bash login problem

[xcssa@xcssa.org]

Does this user have a ~/.bash_profile file? 
-Kevin

xcssa-admin@xcssa.org wrote:
> The env shows the users .bashrc environment variables after logging
> in. It seems like when they log in nothing is being parsed until after
> logging in. As for Bruce's statement about /etc/profile, the thing is,
> if that file is bad wouldn't I expect this logging problem for all
> users?
>
>
> On 5/17/06, xcssa-admin@xcssa.org <xcssa-admin@xcssa.org> wrote:
>> 1. What does the "env" command show you upon logging in?
>>   (or is the login itself actually failing?
>>    if so: are there any clues in /var/log/?
>>           can they scp?
>>           is rlogin/ftp/telnet available?
>>      i.e. does it matter what program is being used for the login?)
>> 2. After you login can you source the .bashrc file without errors?
>> 3. What does the "env" command show you after sourcing .bashrc?
>>
>> Wierd.
>>
>> My .02,
>> -Kevin
>>
>> On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 17:09 -0500, xcssa-admin@xcssa.org wrote:
>> > I think I have stumbled on the strangest login error. Out of 100s of
>> > users, I have one user that has this problem. When they try to SSH
>> > into the main computer they get this error:
>> >
>> > -bash: id: command not found
>> > -bash: [: =: unary operator expected
>> > -bash: id: command not found
>> > -bash: dircolors: command not found
>> > -bash: grep: command not found
>> > -bash: grep: command not found
>> > -bash: id: command not found
>> > -bash: [: =: unary operator expected
>> > -bash: id: command not found
>> > -bash: id: command not found
>> > -bash: id: command not found
>> > -bash: [: too many arguments
>> >
>> > At first I thought it was a bad .bashrc or .bash_profile file so I
>> > moved everything .bash, .csh, .profile to a temp directory and tried
>> > to ssh in, same problem. I have now tracked it down to the first 3
>> > lines come from /etc/bashrc, the rest come from profile.d files in
>> > /etc/profile.d. I would suspect that if those were corrupt or wrong,
>> > all of my users would experience this problem.
>> >
>> > One other thing, their home directory is NFS mounted from their
>> > workstation. I have another user with the exact setup (NFS'ed home)
>> > that I setup this morning thinking he would have the same problem too
>> > (maybe something with NFS), but nope, his ssh sessions work just fine.
>> >
>> > Any ideas guys/gals?
>> >
>> > System - CentOS 4.2
>> >
>> >
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