[16347] in Athena Bugs
Re: sgi 8.2.10: passwd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Sep 22 15:49:28 1998
To: Geoffrey King <gjking@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Bugz <bugs@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 22 Sep 1998 15:41:44 EDT."
<199809221941.PAA03747@Pit-of-Despair.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 15:49:25 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> It works, but then /etc/passwd.local becomes mode 600,
> and so the next time /etc/passwd gets copied to
> /etc/passwd.local, /etc/passwd becomes non-world-readable,
> which causes many programs to complain.
Oops. That's poor. I'll fix that for 8.2.11.
> Also, /usr/athena/bin/passwd should be in root's path
You should probably have said how you became root. I can deduce that
you ran "su"; unfortunately, there is no configuration file
controlling the path set by su. If you run "su -r", you will get an
environment more like a root login (including, perhaps annoyingly, a
chdir to root's homedir).
