Swap and passwd question

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From: Eric Shibuya
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 00:00

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Hi all,

New to the world of Linux, somebody pointed me to this newsgroup.
I've installed Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 on my office machine (dual boot
with W98, because Linux isn't supported by my dept), and I've hit
two problems.

When I boot up, I get this message (or a near facsimile):

swapon: warning /dev/hda5 has insecure permissions 640, 600 suggested.

The thing is, I don't know what this means or how to fix this. Advice?

Second: I've tried to create another user with the adduser command,
and I think I've messed this up. I've done "adduser eric" and been
told to set the password. Okay, but when I type "passwd" I get:

Critical error--aborted

Or some such. What's going on here?

Thanks very much.

Eric
eshibuya@lamar.colostate.edu

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From: eshibuya@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Eric Shibuya)
Subject: Swap and passwd question
Date: 1999/11/03
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