[18130] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux : linux athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Aug 10 17:24:05 2000
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 17:24:00 -0400
Message-Id: <200008102124.RAA05207@d-140-142-110-125.dhcp2.washington.edu>
To: Angie Kelic <sly@mit.edu>
CC: bugs@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[18105] in Athena Bugs"
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Greg submitted a patch for this. I expect it will be in the next
patch release. In teh mean time you can add them to /etc/shells
manually without fear of conflicting with the upcoming fix. I'm going
to go ahead and close your bug report now, but thanks for letting us
know about the problem.
Jonathon
> System name: surveyor.mit.edu
> Type and version: i586
> Display type: XFree86 3.3.6 SVGA
>
> Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
> Window manager: fvwm2
>
> This machine is running layered, but has been updated
> to include all patches up to 8.4.9 (I haven't gotten
> to 8.4.10 yet)
>
> What were you trying to do?
> ftp into the machine
>
> What's wrong:
> I get "access denied" with no particular useful information
> in syslog. This appears to be because my shell, /bin/athena/tcsh
> is not in /etc/shells
>
> What should have happened:
> the is-linux install should replace /etc/shells with the default
> athena /etc/shells list which includes /bin/athena/tcsh otherwise
> things like ftp fail.
