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From: mcormick@unm-la.UUCP (Patrick McCormick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: 'passwd' problems
Keywords: works on floppy but not on fixed
Message-ID: <1062@unm-la.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jan 89 23:25:23 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico - Los Alamos
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	I just got MINIX running on a hard disk and things were
	fine one of the users tried to change their password.
	Here's what happens...


		$ passwd 

	This takes the user(s) through the prompts for old, new, and
	retype (or just new and retype).  But, after a RETURN one of
	follow error messages pops up :

		Can't create temporary file

	--or--
		
		Can't recreate password file

	The second message popped up after I had changed the permissions
	on /etc due to the first message. 

	I finally decided to test the version on a backup disk and, when
	I ran passwd on the floppy, the command worked and I did not get
	any errors. (????)  So, what it boils down to is that I can get
	passwd to work (all the time) on floppy but, it crashes when I
	run it off the hard drive.


	Has anyone had this trouble before?  Any ideas?


	I appologize if this is an old problem that was posted long ago
	I've just recently started into MINIX.


	Thanks,


	Patrick McCormick
	mcormick@unm-la.LANL.GOV
	lanl!unm-la!mcormick@uunet.uu.net
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	uunet.UU.NET!unm-la!mcormick@cs.utexas.edu