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From: jlw@lzga.ATT.COM (Joe Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 3B2/400 console munged
Keywords: wha' hoppened?
Message-ID: <1938@lzga.ATT.COM>
Date: 14 Jun 90 13:04:15 GMT
References: <1990Jun12.202556.26120@cbnewsj.att.com>
Organization: AT&T BL Middletown/Lincroft NJ USA
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In article <1990Jun12.202556.26120@cbnewsj.att.com> k2ph@cbnewsj.att.com (The QRPer) writes:
>I just put up a 3B2/400S60 with SVR3.2 with an old AT&T 4425
>terminal as the console and am getting some strange things
>happening.  Non-root users cannot change their passwords
>from the console (it simply says "Sorry").  If you login as
>root on the console and attempt to change password, it will
>select a password for you without asking for input!



The last time this happened to me I had inadvertantly removed
/dev/tty which the password subroutine opens explicitly to
get your password.  It doesn't check the return from the
open.  I bet you reconfigured /dev by rm'ing /dev/tty* and
re'mknod'ding.   BTW this was many moons ago, but the last
time I checked the sacred source, it was still doing it.


Joe Wood
jlw@lzga.ATT.COM