[3769] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Can't Login on Linux Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Tue Mar 11 17:56:20 2003
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 17:56:17 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200303112256.RAA07216@brad-majors.mit.edu>
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
To: dbaron@MIT.EDU (Dennis Baron)
CC: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: "[3767] in Release_7.7_team"
>> I can no longer login on Linux workstations - I get:
>>
>> Login Failed
>> This account conflicts with a locally defined
>> account... aborting.
>>
>> This seems to be because my uid (77) now appears to be in /etc/passwd.
I talked to Greg about this for a bit; I can offer you two options:
1.) We could change your uid. This is probably going to end up being
complicated and error prone, since you're probably on lots of AFS
acls, but will fix the problem forever.
2.) We can stop installing the arpwatch RPM on the Linux machines, and
remove the entry for the pcap user from the passwd file distributed
to public machines. This won't automatically clean up private
machines (the arpwatch RPM doesn't have an uninstall scriptlet for
removing the pcap user), but removing the user from the passwd (and
passwd.local) file should be safe on private machines you care
about. This won't prevent the problem from recurring on other
platforms with different software packages, but that seems a little
unlikely.
Let us know if you have any questions about any of the above, and
which solution you'd like to see implemented.
Garry
