[1527] in NetBSD-Development
Re: Possible bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Jan 11 10:18:41 1998
To: "Bradley Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>" <yak@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 11 Jan 1998 05:58:59 EST."
<199801111059.FAA01840@drake.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 10:18:27 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> 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.
The code is known to be broken (if you have a local passwd entry and
your home directory fails to attach once, your local passwd entry gets
munged). The NetBSD-Athena 1.3 release is based on newer login
library code which doesn't have the same problems.
