[1525] in NetBSD-Development
Possible bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bradley Thompson)
Sun Jan 11 05:59:16 1998
To: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 05:58:59 EST
From: "Bradley Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>" <yak@MIT.EDU>
Today I had a weird problem. I would log into my NetBSD-athena 1.2 box,
and it would not be able to mount my athena homedir. Other people could
log in, and I could log in elsewhere. After unsuccessfully trying to
figure out what was wrong, I waited for the daily output, which indicated
that a passwd entry had appeared in /etc/passwd.local with the homedir
set to /u1/tmp/yak (the temp directory created for me when I first had the
problem, which was presumably intermittent afs lossage).
The upshot: you may want to check the code that repairs /etc/passwd
(and probably /etc/passwd.local) when a user with a temporary homedir
logs out of a text only terminal.
--yak
