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From: mth@cci632.UUCP (Michael Hickman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: re: Registry problems AGAIN
Message-ID: <41373@cci632.UUCP>
Date: 26 Oct 90 18:42:54 GMT
Reply-To: mth@ron.UUCP (Michael Hickman)
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	We have a situation here where my cohort created a couple of
accounts (never having done it before) and for a person entry 
named 'joe' set the owner as joe.%.%.  He then couldn't
create the account 'joe.eng.none' ("not authorized to perform 
operation" - sound familiar) because an account named "joe" was
the only account authorized to mess with the person "joe"!!

	Once I returned from vacation, I logged in as root and tried 
to delete the person 'joe', and got the message "not authorized 
to perform operation".  AS ROOT!!!

	The only way I found to get a valid account for person "joe"
was to use import_passwd to import an account named "joe".  This
allowed me to rename the original "joe" to "bogus", but now I have
a person entry named "bogus" that is owned by an account "bogus.%.%".

	Why can't I delete this entry as root??


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Michael T. Hickman
Computer Consoles Inc.
Rochester, NY       (716) 482-5000 x2913
mth@cci.com
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