>Michael G. Schabert writes:
>>
>> Hi again,
>> I upgraded to this last snapshot (by hand tar --unlink -zxvf
>> *.tgz...sysinst & upgrade didn't like me) and now I find that telnetd no
>> longer likes me either. It gives me:
>
>i have a problem with the passwd command not working... can you check
>whether passwd works locally at all? perhaps the security stuff is broken
>someplace, or from previous stuff i have only glanced at, nsswitch.conf
>is not set to default to be compatible with the earlier stuff????

prez# passwd vinny
passwd: unknown user vinny
prez#

:(

One problem I had when trying to upgrade...when I tried to use sysinst, it
renamed my /etc, then later on crapped out. Well, that left me with no
fstab, a r/o filesystem, no /etc/man.conf, etc. At first I thought it did
that because the very first time I tried to upgrade, I thought I'd be smart
& not d/l the etc.tgz file to avoid config probs like that. Then I did d/l
everything & try it, but it still did it to me.


As for the telnet probs...I tried changing the telnet line in inetd.conf to
telnet -authtype off but that didn't help. I tried turning on kerberos
auth, kerberos encryption, automatic OTP's, & use hexadecimal to send to
server. None of those helped :(. Also, sometimes it gives me the message I
posted earlier, & sometimes it gives the following:

main program: Undefined symbol "auth_request" (reloc type = 25, symnum = 86)

Also, when I was doing the install, whether manually or using sysinst or
upgrade, while untarring the base set as well as the comp set, it burped at
telling me:
tar: Could not unlink ./usr/include/machine : Operation not permitted
tar: Could not create symlink to alpha : File exists

Again, any insight greatly appreciated before I decide to scrap it &
install the 1.3.3 binary sets.

Thanks,
Mike
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