[16944] in Athena Bugs
Re: sgi 8.3.10: passwd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Barker)
Fri Jul 2 22:37:46 1999
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Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 22:24:25 -0400
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
From: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
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jhawk and jonathon are right -- if I do su -, my prompt is megara# and
passwd "does the right thing".
The private workstation owners guide says to log in as root, so I suppose
most people wouldn't stumble into this one.
I see that Greg has already put a patch in to make passwd print out who it
is operating for (since the local program on SGI doesn't tell you).
Thanks, all!
mike
At 04:09 PM 7/2/99 -0400, Jonathon Weiss wrote:
:)
:)Try running su - to su and seeing if you still have the problem. The
:)'-' prevents su from passing along most of your environment, and I
:)suspect that may have been the source of your problem.
:)
:)--
:)
:) Jonathon
