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sparc lossage: user not in /etc/passwd

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Sun Jun 15 16:28:58 1997

To: testers@MIT.EDU
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@cygnus.com>
Date: 15 Jun 1997 16:28:49 -0400

user sepherke logged in to bart-savagewood in the sipb office, which
is running 8.1.4.  She had no /etc/passwd entry.  The failure mode was
non-obvious: xterm would run, put up and empty window, then die.
emacs M-x shell is your friend.

		Marc

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