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Eric Shibuya <eshibuya@lamar.colostate.edu> wrote:

: When I boot up, I get this message (or a near facsimile):
: swapon: warning /dev/hda5 has insecure permissions 640, 600 suggested.

This /is/ the right newsgroup. :)  The answer is still  
chmod 600 /dev/hda5
You may need to be root to do this.

: 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?

This was Caldera?  Does it work using their Coast config tool?  With
some of the higher-end systems, you can get into trouble if you don't
do things with their tools.  
If you insist on doing it the CLI way (I would. :) ), you should make
sure that eric has an entry in both /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. You 
should probably check that the lines are somewhat similar to lines
near it.

BTW: I haven't had Caldera for very long... So, these are just guesses.

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