[3375] in testers
Re: O2 reinstall problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (chad brown)
Wed Dec 3 16:24:49 1997
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Darrin Jewell <jewell@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU, sipb-office@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Dec 1997 10:17:40 EST."
<199712031517.KAA02687@the-light-fantastic.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 16:24:24 EST
From: chad brown <yandros@MIT.EDU>
I suspect that this might already have been relayed in-person, but in
case, and for the record:
> You have to copy /etc/passwd to /etc/passwd.local, same as on any
> other Athena machine. Also, PUBLIC has to be false in
> /etc/athena/rc.conf.
I did that. After logout, both passwd and passwd.local had their old
values (and timestamps). Also, I changed the file with /bin/passwd
and copied the file to passwd.local and passwd.donottouchme (or
similar), verified that all three files were the same, and ran
/bin/login from a shell prompt, to verify that the Athena root pw was
NOT being accepted and the newly-set pw was being accepted. (it was).
Then I re-checked passwd, passwd.local, and passwd.donottouchme. Then
I logged out, and oliver only took the athena root pw, and both passwd
and passwd.local were set to the old value (and timestamp), but
passwd.donottouchme still had the changed root pw. I also repeated
this with `opasswd' instead of `passwd.donottouchme'. Also, I started
toolchest manually, started the system manager tool, and changed the
password that way (on the theory that maybe the objectserver was
responsible). This change also didn't `stick'.
I did not try copying passwd to passwd.local after using the system
administration tool to change the password.
All logins were done as `root'. I too noticed that if I logged in as
root very soon after logging out, I got both xlogins, not just the
athena one.
chad
