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Re: 9.0.6: Misc. issues, some serious

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher D. Beland)
Wed Jun 13 19:17:52 2001

Message-Id: <200106132317.TAA48561@whack-a-mole.mit.edu>
To: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: The events that comprise the history of the universe.
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 19:17:44 -0400
From: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>


> 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.

Ah, right, right.  Boy do I love that krak.  8)

> Did you "su root" or "su - root"?  If used without the hyphen, that
> sounds ri ght because it's not supposed to mess with much in your
> environment, including the prompt strings.

I meant the former, which is what I think Greg is now changing.

-B.

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