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Re: Buggy 4.0 && unhappy user

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Fri Oct 25 10:38:49 1996

Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 10:37:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
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On Thu, 24 Oct 1996 honglu@rt66.com wrote:

> But the ease of redhat 3.0.3 is gone in 4.0, and it seems that no one can
> help me to solve the problems.

I didn't realize you were having problems. There are certainly bugs in 4.0
and we're working hard to quench them. 

> First, passwd is not working  for non-root users, I tried to  change
> passwd group to root.root and setuid root, no luck.
> (/usr/bin/passwd root root rswr-xr-x )

Will you reinstall the passwd program, make sure you have the latest PAM
from the upgrades, and then tell us how passwd is failing?

> Second , I found that screen is not working for non-root users today.

Make sure you have the latest screen from our updates installed. What
does "rpm -q screen" say?

Erik

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