Elm 2.4 confusing one user with another

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From: Jean-Pierre Radley
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1992 04:00

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SCO Unix 3.2v4.1
Elm 2.4

Elm is confusing one user with another here.

Here are two lines from /etc/passwd:

vernon:x:242:50:Robert Young,Vernon Rentals:/pub/vernon:/bin/sh
dons:x:212:50:Donald Schettini:/pub/dons:/bin/sh

When vernon tries to save mail, or to change folders, he gets told
	sh: cannot open /pub/dons/Mail

When don tries to save mail, or to change folders, he gets told
	sh: cannot open /pub/vernon/Mail

I haven't heard this from don yet, but vernon has told me that mail he sent
to another site was, on the remote site, ascribed to Donald Schettini.

What could be happening?
-- 
Jean-Pierre Radley   Unix in NYC   jpr@jpr.com   jpradley!jpr   CIS: 72160.1341

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