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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