[19708] in Athena Bugs
Re: serious PWOG problem with quick fix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Mon Aug 27 18:16:03 2001
Message-ID: <cvWgOThz00011r8dVQ@mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 22:15:59 +0000 ()
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>, John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
CC: aurora@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU, source-developers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <200108221442.KAA26908@multics.mit.edu>
Forgive my chiming in late. I'm just back from vacation.
One possiblity, in advance of wonderful programs that do the right thing
is the following additional prose:
If you are converting a PUBLIC system to a PRIVATE system for the
first time, you may not yet have a required file, /etc/passwd.local.
This file contains the entries in /etc/passwd you wish to persist
across system cleanups.
To create it for the first time:
cp /etc/passwd /etc/passwd.local
