chsh on lily's

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2 total messages Started by mdhutton Fri, 22 Sep 1989 19:22

#65

Author: mdhutton
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1989 19:22

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How do I change my shell on lily network.  passwd -s and chsh come
back with error 'mdhutton not in /etc/passwd', which is true.

BTW, why are users not in /etc/passwd - they used to be?

Mike

Re: chsh on lily's

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Author: Andy Wai
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1989 22:20

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In article <28@lily.waterloo.edu> mdhutton@lily04.waterloo.edu () writes:
>How do I change my shell on lily network.  passwd -s and chsh come
>back with error 'mdhutton not in /etc/passwd', which is true.

"chsh" only works on local copy of /etc/passwd, which as you've
observed, doesn't contain any users.  The "passwd" command you use
on lilys is actually "yppasswd", which operates on a remote copy
stored on lily.  Unfortunately, stock Sun version of yppasswd doesn't
have the -s and -f flag and we are kind of low on man power right now.
So it'll be there eventually, but...

>BTW, why are users not in /etc/passwd - they used to be?

As I mentioned, the master copy is on lily.  As to why, think about
keeping identical this and other very critical files on all 17 lilys
which are going up and down ALL THE TIME.  It's not fun.

Andy

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