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Re: Strange login behaviour:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Allen Francom)
Tue Nov 5 00:53:20 1996
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 10:57:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Allen Francom <afrancom@numedics.transport.com>
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I might be able to help with the host name thing...
When you upgraded you might have clobbered /etc/hosts
This file is used to lookup names and turn them into IP addresses:
111.111.111.111 aptiva aptiva.fred.com
...Would be an example entry,
By default,
127.0.0.1 localhost
...is almost always there.
To fix it, you'll need a backup of you hosts file, OR a domain name
server and a properly configured networking setup, OR the IP number for
aptiva so you can manually enter it into /etc/hosts.
Your username/password utilities appear to be munched.
You did an UPGRADE ?
I've not migrated to 4.0 so hopefully someone else can elaborate from
first-hand experience...
- Good luck !
THX
-AEF
On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, Michael J. Yanowitz wrote:
> None of this happenned in 3.0.3, but I did a complete reinstall to 4.0.
> But this used to work:
> [mjyan@aptiva mjyan]$ hostname
> aptiva
> [mjyan@aptiva mjyan]$ rlogin aptiva -l yanowitz
> aptiva: unknown host
> [mjyan@aptiva mjyan]$ telnet aptiva -l yanowitz
> aptiva: Unknown host
> [mjyan@aptiva mjyan]$ telnet localhost
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
>
> Why don't telnet and rlogin recognize aptiva as the hostname, but
> localhost is recognized?
>
> Also when I login, to any non-root account:
> 1) Any password is accepted
> 2) So I typed passwd and enterred a new password which is a
> 2 digit number followed by a 5 character word, and passwd responded
> with:
> it is based on a dictionary word
>
> I have used similar passwords in the past, and this is the only
> time where a password such as 34linux (not my real password)
> would not be allowed. I don't want a cryptic password. Are there
> any normal passwd programs around or could/should I load the one
> from 3.0.3?
>
> Thanks in advance:
> Michael J. Yanowitz
> November 4, 1996
>
>
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