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Date:      Wed, 18 Jan 1995 10:17:41 -0500 (EST)
From:      Jeff Aitken <jaitken@vt.edu>
To:        smcarey@mailbox.syr.edu (Shawn M. Carey)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: possible bug in manpage for restore(8)?
Message-ID:  <199501181517.KAA11341@jaitken.async.vt.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9501180412.AA18734@kong.syr.edu> from "Shawn M. Carey" at Jan 17, 95 11:12:41 pm

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> Also, I wouldv'e checked this on a 2.x
> system with my (former) thud account, but I can no longer get in.  I
> see via finger(1) that I'm still in the passwd file, but no go when it
> comes time to authenticate.  Were accounts disabled intentionally?  I
> really miss having access to a 2.x machine. :(

As an interesting aside (read: this has nothing to do with your message ;)
you may not have an account anymore, despite finger's report, if thud
uses GNU fingerd.  Some versions of fingerd (maybe only old ones, I
don't know) build up potentially *huge* caches and _never flush them_!!
We had one instance here where someone's account was deleted and this
person was convinced evn a month or so later that he still had an
account.
-- 
Jeff Aitken
jaitken@vt.edu



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