Subject: password problems solved
From: Joe Rhodes (joe_b_rhodes@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Jul 02 2000 - 23:47:51 EDT
For anyone else that is having the same trouble I was, I thought I'd throw
>out what worked for me.
>
>Symptoms:
> netatalk box shows up in chooser, but correct log on always gives,
>"Sorry,the password you entered was ..."
>
>Problem:
> netatalk is very sensative to the permisions on the ".passwd" file
>that
>lives in each users directory. It must have only owner read and write
>permisions. I found this out by finally noticing the "Insecure permissions
>found for /home/jrhodes/.passwd" message showing up in /var/log/messages.
>Further, the file must be the creater and owner of the file. If you're
>setting up this file for someone else, than you must su to that user to
>create the file, then change it's permissions
>
>Solution:
> Give the .passwd file the correct permissions, log in happily, smack
>oneself in the head severly saying "DOH!" loudly.
>
> Hope this helps anyone else running into the same thing!
>
>-Joe Rhodes
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