[19648] in Athena Bugs
serious PWOG problem with quick fix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Fri Aug 17 20:37:18 2001
Message-Id: <200108180037.UAA26851@the-other-woman.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: aurora@MIT.EDU
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 20:37:15 -0400
over the last week or so several poeple have accident;y blown away
their passwd file on linux boxes.
they were following the instructions:
hesinfo username passwd >> /etc/passwd.local
the problem is that passwd.local is apparently not always created on
linux machines, and bash which is the default root shell on linux
happily creates the file rather than whining at the user that he file
doesn't exist (like we're used to with tcsh on other platforms). Can
we get a quick update to tell people to double check that the file
exists first or something? There is no problem with /etc/passwd,
since that always exists, it's just that when passwd.local gets
created with a single entry and then later gets copied over passwd,
people get hurt.
Jonathon
