Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!agate!tornado.Berkeley.EDU!dpassage From: dpassage@tornado.Berkeley.EDU (David G. Paschich) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: Unable to update /etc/passwd or registry. Not owner Keywords: domain registry passwd owner chsh Message-ID: <1991Mar18.042411.16778@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 18 Mar 91 04:24:11 GMT References: Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator) Organization: UC Berkeley's Open Computing Facility Lines: 25 In article rtb@cernapo.cern.ch (Rainer Tobbicke) writes: >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. We've been having the same problem with our registry, under SR10.3 on a net of 3500 and 4500's, and if you think it's a pain with twenty users, try it on an open access system with 1500 active accounts, most belonging to people with little or no Unix experience. The problem appeared with OS 10.3. It was previously discussed here, and the only suggestion we got was to make sure that glbd is running on the same node as the master registry, whereas the Apollo docs only say to run it somewhere on the ring. The problem isn't consistent; we've been telling our users to try it again later or on a different node. It seems to occur somehere around 50% of the time. David G. Paschich dpassage@ocf.berkeley.edu Just say not to huge .sigs!