[3539] in testers
Re: xlogin al confusion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Jun 5 01:01:38 1998
To: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Jun 1998 21:47:09 EDT."
<199806050147.VAA17925@antharia.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 01:00:59 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> This may somehow be related to my finger info changing between my
> previous login and this one?
Doesn't seem too likely. xlogin should only display that error
message if al_acct_create() yields a WXTMPDIR warning, and libal only
yields that warning if record->old_homedir is true. But your session
record doesn't reflect that.
If you can reproduce the problem, it shouldn't be too difficult to
debug (we'd start by replacing xlogin with the unstripped version, of
course, and then attach it from a remote root login before entering
the username and password).
