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- From: hkarhune@hydra.Helsinki.FI (Heikki Karhunen)
- Subject: Re: audswitch?
- In-Reply-To: iversen@dsfys1.fi.uib.no's message of Tue, 12 Jan 93 15: 18:48 GMT
- Message-ID: <HKARHUNE.93Jan12211818@hydra.Helsinki.FI>
- Sender: news@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Uutis Ankka)
- Organization: Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Helsinki,
- Finland
- References: <1993Jan12.151848.12308@alf.uib.no>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 19:18:18 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In article <1993Jan12.151848.12308@alf.uib.no> iversen@dsfys1.fi.uib.no (Per Steinar Iversen) writes:
-
- > An HP here has developed the interesting habit of refusing to modify the
- > passwd file with chfn:
-
- > hans:maxwell>chfn hans
- > chfn: audswitch: Not owner
-
- I once managed to do something similar. I had to change one user's
- UID, and I made a slight type with my chown. Well, the sort of it is
- that I donated all the files owned by 'bin' to this guy. Unfortunately
- /bin/login and assorted are owned by bin...
-
- When I tried to telnet to this system (I was maniplating it remotely)
- I got that bit about audswitch.
-
- > What is audswitch? The man pages give no clue...Any information on how this
- > can be cured will be appreciated.
-
- The short way to fix it is to check the permissions of chfn and fix
- them if they are awry.
-
- > -psi
-
- Heikki
-
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- | hkarhune@hydra.helsinki.fi | There is always a job for a theoretical |
- | Heikki.Karhunen@helsinki.fi | physicist -- at least in theory. |
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