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Date:      Mon, 27 Sep 1999 10:08:33 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Seriously Bad Manners - Was: something extremely weird! help!!
Message-ID:  <19990927100832.W46202@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909270201330.47286-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>; from Jason C. Wells on Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 02:12:35AM %2B0000
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.05.9909261523380.3095-100000@binary> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909270201330.47286-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>

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On Monday, 27 September 1999 at  2:12:35 +0000, Jason C. Wells wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, skalir <skalir@binary.databits.net> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>
> 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.

Hmm.  I'm not sure that was correct.

> 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.

More to the point, it should be clear that if you're getting free
support, you could at least be polite.  Nobody's forced to answer any
of these questions, and if you want to get ignored, this is a good way
to go about it.

Greg
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