[12909] in Athena Bugs
decmips [7.7G]: login
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jweiss@MIT.EDU)
Fri Nov 18 17:29:03 1994
From: jweiss@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 17:28:52 -0500
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: jweiss@MIT.EDU
System name: tla
Type and version: KN01 7.7G (Some number of updates to same version)
Display type: PMAX-MFB
What were you trying to do?
Fix a bug in login a few weeks ago, but that's not important
right now.
What went wrong?
If login cannot lock the passwd file in order to add the user
to the passwd file, it syslogs "failed to lock /etc/passwd for insert"
and tells the user that it isn't adding them to the passwd file.
However, it promptly adds the user and breaks the lock.
What should have happened?
Either it should exit if it can't lock the passwd file, or it
should syslog and tell the user what it is actually doing.
Yo, got any documentation, or other info?
Nope.
