Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 02:12:35 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Seriously Bad Manners - Was: something extremely weird! help!! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909270201330.47286-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.05.9909261523380.3095-100000@binary>
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On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, skalir <skalir@binary.databits.net> wrote: >the home dirs fucking exist you idiot >and when i login via telnet i can run cd ~ and it goes to the correct >dir.. but on console it goes to / > >pfft. > > >On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Jason C. Wells wrote: > >> On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, skalir wrote: >> >> >I setup a machine on my lan, 3.1-RELEASE >> > >> >i added users to it, >> > >> >if i add a user to my normal homedir everything is ok, >> >but if a add a user to the staff homedir, and login as >> >them via CONSOLE i get "no home dir, logging in with /"; but if i telnet >> >in, and login as that username under the staff dir, i dont get the error >> >> Perhaps you _are_ getting the error when you telnet but the error message >> is not echoed to your terminal but to the system log. >> >> At any rate, use 'vipw' to change the homedir for staff people to one that >> does exist. This is the first time in my tenure on these lists that I have ever received an email like this one. I considered writing a reply to this person. Then I reconsidered. I am taking his private reply public. I don't know who this person is. Regardless, this response is wholly inappropriate. I ask the people who subscribe to this list to turn their back to this person. Thank You, | http://students.washington.edu/jcwells Jason Wells | "Those who would trade freedom for security deserve neither | freedom nor security." - Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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