From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 26 17:38:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39A5C1520F for ; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 17:38:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA84934; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 10:08:33 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 10:08:33 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Jason C. Wells" Cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: Seriously Bad Manners - Was: something extremely weird! help!! Message-ID: <19990927100832.W46202@freebie.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Jason C. Wells on Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 02:12:35AM +0000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 27 September 1999 at 2:12:35 +0000, Jason C. Wells wrote: > On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, skalir 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 -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message