Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!cernvax!cernapo.cern.ch!rtb From: rtb@cernapo.cern.ch (Rainer Tobbicke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Unable to update /etc/passwd or registry. Not owner Keywords: domain registry passwd owner chsh Message-ID: Date: 14 Mar 91 14:18:07 GMT Sender: news@cernvax.cern.ch Lines: 28 I have got a problem trying to change my login shell with chsh (I'm running BSD): it says chsh: Unable to update /etc/passwd or registry. Not owner Other people do not have the same problem. Even with a second 'account' belonging to the same 'person' (in the sense of edrgy) it works fine. And of course I can change my account when I su to root. Needless to say, since chsh is essentially passwd, passwd has the same problem, /etc/edrgy is no better. It works fine with the local registry (chsh -l), which definitely points to a network registry problem since the problem does not disappear on other nodes I tried. /etc/rgy_admin showed no anomaly, and for once even /etc/ncs/drm_admin did not come up with clock skew warnings. To shake things a bit I even changed the master registry and stopped the rgyd on the node /etc/edrgy always insisted on talking to first... no go! My question: what is going on here? Thanks for any ideas! -- Rainer Toebbicke European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) Geneva, Switzerland rtb@cernapo.cern.ch, rtb@cernvm.cern.ch