Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!cernvax!cernapo.cern.ch!rtb From: rtb@cernapo.cern.ch (Rainer Tobbicke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: Unable to update /etc/passwd or registry. Not owner Message-ID: Date: 26 Mar 91 09:37:43 GMT References: <738@bcstec.boeing.com> <508085fb.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> Sender: news@cernvax.cern.ch Lines: 20 Actually, together with a collegue we have traced the problem down to a change to the user's name: in order to put a user into another group, we use /etc/edrgy and 'c account.group.org -n acount.newgroup.org'. This seems to do what you would do with a vi of /etc/passwd on a vanilla Unix system, the user ends up in group 'newgroup' (I'm aware that this creates a mess in his file base). After this the poor guy cannot change his default shell any more...! Thanks to anybody who hinted at possible ownership, glbd, clock skews in drm_admin etc..., I went through the whole lot and think everything works perfectly (for once). Now, if anybody has an idea on how to change a user's group in a different manner... -- Rainer Toebbicke European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) Geneva, Switzerland rtb@cernapo.cern.ch, rtb@cernvm.cern.ch