Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] 1.4b2+asun and passwords
From: Eric KieslingThompson (duetc@email.msn.com)
Date: Tue Mar 17 1998 - 00:15:19 EST
YOU'RE RIGHT!!!
Thank you for the tip. I changed the passwd file username entry so that it
started with a small, instead of cap, and it worked. In addition, the
chooser login name still started with a cap, just as you had indicated.
But this is a problem, right? Why is it doing this?
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael A. Erickson <miericks@maxwell.psy.cmu.edu>
To: Eric KieslingThompson <duetc@email.msn.com>
Cc: netatalk-admins@umich.edu <netatalk-admins@umich.edu>
Date: Friday, March 13, 1998 1:06 PM
Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] 1.4b2+asun and passwords
>"Eric KieslingThompson" <duetc@email.msn.com> writes:
>> I downloaded "netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.0a18.2" and finally got successful
>> compiles. Unfortunately, no matter what I try, I can't seem to get
netatalk
>> to accept my passwords. I've done the obvious, such as add -DSHADOWPW to
>> cflags, to /sys/linux/Makefile, etc., and also everything that I could
find
>> in mail from this list. As I said, I am getting successful compiles--no
>> erros or warnings. I have been running 1.4b2 on several systems with no
>> problems. What can I be missisng?
>
>I had this problem for a while after upgrading from 1.4b2 to the
>latest (?) asun release.
>
>I found that the problem was not my password, but my username. I had
>created an entry in my passwd file with Erickson as the username that
>worked fine in 1.4b2, but once I upgraded, I couldn't mount anything
>until I changed the username in the passwd file to erickson (even
>though my username was still listed as Erickson with a captital E in
>the chooser dialog).
>
>Could that be your problem?
>
>\MaE
>
>Michael A. Erickson
>erickson@cmu.edu
>
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