From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 18 07:18:08 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id HAA04199 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jan 1995 07:18:08 -0800 Received: from jaitken.async.vt.edu (jaitken@jaitken.async.vt.edu [128.173.18.165]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA04179 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 1995 07:18:03 -0800 Received: (jaitken@localhost) by jaitken.async.vt.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) id KAA11341; Wed, 18 Jan 1995 10:17:41 -0500 From: Jeff Aitken Message-Id: <199501181517.KAA11341@jaitken.async.vt.edu> Subject: Re: possible bug in manpage for restore(8)? To: smcarey@mailbox.syr.edu (Shawn M. Carey) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 10:17:41 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <9501180412.AA18734@kong.syr.edu> from "Shawn M. Carey" at Jan 17, 95 11:12:41 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 768 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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