Turns out the problem was due to a little fact I didn't mention -- all
users here have the Computronics PEEK shell installed, which allows
keystroke monitoring (and 'feeding'). It does this by basically
shadowing the tty's (I'm sure there are a LOT more details, but,
well...).
(The web script authenticates with the Unix password database, and when
expect spawns off a command, it uses that user's shell. Why my password
change script -- which does basically the same thing and was even the
basis for this calendar tool idea -- works and this one doesn't I
haven't got a clue.)
The fix was pretty easy: define the environment variable _ttyname to
be some bogus value and the PEEK shell (pksh) won't run, allowing
normal use.
And to think, my forehead took so much abuse for one little line....
Mike
--
---
Michael Matthews (703) 227 9281 / (703) 848 6359
Systems Administrator/Resident Geek http://cyber.sgate.com/~matthewm/
Received on Fri May 30 1997 - 20:19:48 NZST