[496] in athena10
Re: Suggested amendments to the Athena10 docs.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Tue Sep 16 16:50:20 2008
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:49:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
cc: athena10@mit.edu
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On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, William Cattey wrote:
>> Was there a local account for wdc when you ran this?
>
> I'm not sure I understand your question. Yes, the initial account "wdc" was
> created by me when I installed Ubuntu, so I needed to run the procedure.
>
> I do not know if step 6 "userdel wdc" was successful in deleting the
> local wdc account. Is that what you are asking?
Sorry, I should have been more clear in my question.
The current Debathena nsswitch setup does not allow you to add a nonlocal
(i.e. Athena) user to a local group. So, my guess is that what is
happening here is that you deleted the local wdc user, and then you tried
to add the (nonlocal) wdc user to the local admin group, which is
prevented in a way that I would expect to potentially result in a usage
message.
So, I was trying to ask whether you'd re-created a local wdc user with the
Athena passwd information after having deleted the initial wdc user (which
should work).
-Tim Abbott
