[4767] in testers
Re: 9.0.6: Misc. issues, some serious
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitchell E Berger)
Tue Jun 12 14:40:16 2001
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To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Jun 2001 07:52:32 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 14:40:12 -0400
From: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
> - "hesinfo beland uid" doesn't work; the manpage seems to indicate to
> me that it should. "hesinfo beland passwd", etc. work as
> advertised, as far as I know.
>
Athena 9.0's hesiod programs and your hesiod information are fine as far as I
can tell. "passwd" is the map from usernames to passwd-like entries. "uid"
is the map from uids to passwd entries. For example:
athena% hesinfo beland passwd
beland:*:24018:101:Christopher Beland,Beland,,,6174371043:/mit/beland:/bin/athe
na/tcsh
athena% hesinfo 24018 uid
beland:*:24018:101:Christopher Beland,Beland,,,6174371043:/mit/beland:/bin/athe
na/tcsh
> - When you su to root, there is no prompt change to remind you of
> this. This seems poor, not to mention a little confusing.
Did you "su root" or "su - root"? If used without the hyphen, that sounds right because it's not supposed to mess with much in your environment, including the prompt strings. If you su with a hyphen, you should get the fully qualified hostname with a pound sign as a prompt. This is working fine for me.
Mitch
