Shell policy Override the shell of users stops all logins from working except root

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Hi,

When I enable this feature to gain access to the user-settings page, all logins are stopped. This includes mail server, smb etc. The user is given permission denied errors and email clients can’t log in on imap etc.

I can log in as root on cockpit and disable this feature and all returns to normal. But I really want to give my users access to the user-settings page.

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Please activate it, try to login with a user and post the relevant fragment of messages.log. Also you may have a look at mail and smb log.

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Hi,

Sorry for the long delay. I had to do the tests when no users were on, which meant an early start for me today.

I shut down all the virtual machines, and then rebooted the server. Now the logins are working, but on accessing the setting page I get a blank web page and on checking webpage with inspect get

cockpit.min.js:347 WebSocket connection to ‘wss://server.flashelectrical.co.nz/cockpit/socket’ failed:
t @ cockpit.min.js:347
cockpit.min.js:502 transport closed, dropped message:
{“payload”:“stream”,“spawn”:["/usr/bin/printenv",“LANG”],“command”:“open”,“channel”:“1”,“flow-control”:true}

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Which browser do you use? There are some problems with safari.

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I used Google chrome for testing…and have just tried mobile browser, and AdBlock browser, same blank page.

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Can you test firefox please. If it is the same problem, press F12 and post the output of the console here.

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It came right after midnight. Must have been Gremlins…F12 post is as above.

Looked like the service was rejecting ws connection.

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