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From: jpp@slxsys.co.uk (John Pettitt)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: weird bug with passwd and /dev/syscon
Message-ID: <260@slxsys.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 23-Oct-87 14:32:55 EST
Article-I.D.: slxsys.260
Posted: Fri Oct 23 14:32:55 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 27-Oct-87 01:10:11 EST
References: <298@boole.acc.virginia.edu>
Reply-To: jpp@slxsys.UUCP (John Pettitt)
Organization: Specialix Systems, London, UK
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In article <298@boole.acc.virginia.edu> ejc@boole.acc.virginia.edu (Elizabeth Cummings) writes:
>   We noticed the following bug the other day with some of our 3b2's.  
>When /dev/syscon is linked to a tty line, say tty11, you can't run the 
>passwd command on that tty line without giving passwd an argument.  This 
>caused major problems for people with new accounts ( we put ",.." in the 
>password field of all new accounts) and these people were unable to log in 
>on tty11.

",.." in /etc/passwd ! I hope you dont allow dial'ins now you have told
the world !

The /dev/syscon problem also shows up on our V.3/386 system (Interactive
Systems 386ix).

We set the default prompt to 'nodename!userid ' in /etc/profile. When
we had /dev/syscon linked to /dev/vt01 'who am i' failed to return 
anything although 'tty' and 'id' and who -a all worked.

Is this a bug or a feature and if it is a feature what is going on ?


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