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From: jbm@uncle.UUCP (John B. Milton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,unix-pc.general,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: username problem
Message-ID: <316@uncle.UUCP>
Date: 14 Aug 88 22:20:28 GMT
References: <578@proxftl.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbm@uncle.UUCP (John B. Milton)
Organization: Just me and my computer, Columbus Ohio
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In article <578@proxftl.UUCP> aaron@proxftl.UUCP (Aaron Zimmerman) writes:
...
>$ passwd
>Changing password for LOGIN
>Permission denied.
>$ passwd aaron
>Old password:
>

My guess is that the /etc/utmp file is partially trashed. Try a who -a.
A re-boot should solve the problem for now, but you need to figure out what
is going on. I had similiar strangeness happen when I had getty running on a
pty. Do you have anything weird in your /etc/inittab? The reason I suspect
/etc/inittab, is because that is where the LOGIN comes from.

John
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