Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!crdgw1!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!qmw-cs!davide From: davide@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Dave Edmondson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: Dodgy .logins (was Personal System Folders and NFS) Message-ID: <3137@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk> Date: 9 Dec 90 18:09:47 GMT References: <1990Dec3.045212.12037@julius.cs.uiuc.edu> <==1qg2.c"5@smurf.sub.org> Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK. Lines: 21 In chet@Advansoft.COM (Chet Wood) writes: >One of our users has _never_ been able to log in-- the system hangs >for hours-- until you telnet in and kill the fake_mac_os process. >( Creating a local home directory for him will presumably cure the >problem-- if he ever again shows an interest in using the Mac.) This sound like they have something in their .login to run a command which requires user input or they exec something from .login or .cshrc. Try renaming their .login and .cshrc and logging in. -- David Edmondson ARPA: davide@cs.qmw.ac.uk Dept of Computer Science JANET:davide@uk.ac.qmw.cs Queen Mary & Westfield College UUCP: davide@qmw-cs.UUCP Mile End Road AppleLink: UK0087 LONDON, E1 4NS, UK Tel: 071-975 5250 (Fax: 081-980 6533) DoD#0777 Guzzi Le Mans 1000