Subj : MBSE, Sysops and distros
To   : Vince Coen
From : Andrew Leary
Date : Sat Jul 18 2015 01:26 pm

Hello Vince!

17 Jul 15 14:27, you wrote to all:

 VC> I have been having problems using mbse with Mageia v4 (& v3) since
 VC> migrating over from Mandriva 2011 in that for any new user (connecting
 VC> to the system using telnet) having entered username with the system
 VC> creating the linux and bbs account then requests password the password
 VC> setup fails with a shadow file busy.  This is not the case as when
 VC> testing for it via "sudo lsof | grep shadow" produces nothing.

 VC> So the question - would ALL mbse sysops please report here what Distro
 VC> including version they are using and what mbse version and confirm if
 VC> that have had new users registering since using along with the date
 VC> (MM/YY) of last registered user.

I'm running under Slackware 14.0 currently, and have had no problems with new 
users registering.  The most recent one I saw in my quick glance at the user 
file was in January 2015.

 VC> If you have not had anyone since setup please provide your BBS contact
 VC> details and I will try via telnet, or you can do a test yourself again
 VC> (using telnet localhost etc) and set up a test user and let me know.

 VC> If others are suffering from the same problem then we need to take a
 VC> close look at the code that deals with this and fix it!

I think this is Mageia related; when I have some spare time and a machine to 
try it, I will do a test setup and see what I can figure out.

Andrew

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