[499] in athena10
Re: Suggested amendments to the Athena10 docs.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Tue Sep 16 17:10:31 2008
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:09:35 -0400
To: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Alas, I have no clue.
I merely ran the two commands in the script:
userdel wdc
useradd wdc admin
when the second command failed, I ran
useradd wdc
That seemed to recover my old local account information sorta kinda.
I can login from the login screen, but my prompt is "$" and my
homedir is /home/wdc.
By the way, here's another amendment to the instructions:
You need to reboot before you see the Athena10 login screen. If
you've installed workstation and get the stock ubuntu login, the
install did not complete.
On Sep 16, 2008, at 4:49 PM, Tim Abbott wrote:
> 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
