Subj : Bug?
To   : Andrew Leary
From : Vince Coen
Date : Thu Mar 19 2015 10:34 am

Hello Andrew!

Tuesday March 17 2015 05:04, you wrote to me:

 > Hello Vince!

 > Monday March 16 2015 16:53, Vince Coen wrote to Andrew Leary:

 VC>> If you have the time? can you take a look at the way mbse deals
 VC>> with setting up or amending a users password (both new and
 VC>> existing)?

 VC>> On my system, since changing from Mandriva 2011 (and previous
 VC>> versions) to Mageia v4 (and v3) when a new user telnet's in s/he
 VC>> can only get as far as entering a password then it fails by
 VC>> saying that the file (shadow) is busy.

 > I think this is something specific to Mageia, because it works fine on
 > other distributions, including Debian, Ubuntu, and Slackware.  I would
 > have to try setting up a test system on Mageia to see if I can sort
 > that out.

It may well be the way mbse sets the password that conflicts but I could not 
see it
when I looked at the code but I am hardly current with C and may have missed 
some
odd coding but it does 'assume' specific working that may be out of date with
current kernels and password processing.

Most odd !


Vince

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