>I just tried to install NetBSD 1.0B from the Sept. 16 installation sets on a
>Dell 486 and almost everything is working great.  As long as I am root
>everything acts like normal, but when I set up a user using vipw, and chpass
>that user doesn't have access to certain parts of the system.
[...]

It sounds like you don't have your executables installed setuid root.
How did you do this install??  Did you do it as a user other than
root?  I don't think your permissions got installed correctly.

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