Re: Shadow passwords and .89

Roberto Lumbreras Pastor (rover@etsit.upm.es)
Wed, 17 Apr 1996 03:23:52 +0200 (MET DST)

Adrian Portelli <ca097662@mail01.mel.aone.net.au> wrote:
>
> I have been running shadow passwords since 1.3.7X and have had no
> problems even now on 1.3.89.
>
> Are you sure that's what it is ?
>
> Adrian.

I have been running shadow passwords too, since 1.3.4*, and
I've had this problem with all versions. I think it's a
problem of the shadow package. I use shadow-960129 in an elf
system.

It happen only once in each tty[1-6][0-9]. The message I get is

Welcome to Linux 1.3.88 (tty2)

fuego login: root
No utmp entry. You must exec "login" from the lowest level "sh"

Welcome to Linux 1.3.88 (tty2)

fuego login: root
Password:
Linux fuego 1.3.88 #1 Sun Apr 14 00:38:00 MET DST 1996 i586
Last login: Wed Apr 17 00:08:11 on tty10.
You have mail.
root@fuego:~#

Greetings,
Roberto Lumbreras
rover@etsit.upm.es