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From: Andrei Ousti <oust_at_dnttm.ru>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 00:05:23 +0300 (MSK)

Greetings, O Mighty and experienced readers!!...

Please, if you can help me with my humble problem, answer this
letter as soon as you can see (or maybe feel?) the right answer...

Look: I have recently reinstalled DEC OSF/1 on my little computer..
(I had to do it becasue of dirty crash happened to me some time
ago)...
And everything seem to be OK -- users can log in and even log out...
root can do anything he wants, and it works rather stable...
so, it looks very nice...but for one little ...er...`feature':

---
bash# whoami
root
bash# su oust
shell-init: could not get current directory: getwd: can't stat .
bash$ passwd
job-working-directory: could not get current directory: getwd: can't stat
.
insufficient privileges
Password not changed: cannot access protected password entry.
bash$ su
job-working-directory: could not get current directory: getwd: can't stat
.
su: insufficient privileges
---
And I get that nasty 'insufficient privilegies' message each time I try
to execute 'matrix.conf'-related copmmand...(chfn,chsh,s,login,passwd)
(except for login, perhaps)...
Have you got any ideas?...can it be file-permissions? (look at appendix)
Maybe it is something else? Something more unpredictable? something more
challenging?...
Any comments and ideas would be GREATLY appreiated...
Thank you in advance,
Andrei Ousti.
Appendix:
Here is my matrix.conf:
siad_init=(BSD,libc.so)
siad_chk_invoker=(OSFC2,libsecurity.so)
siad_ses_init=(OSFC2,libsecurity.so)
siad_ses_authent=(OSFC2,libsecurity.so)
siad_ses_estab=(OSFC2,libsecurity.so)
siad_ses_launch=(OSFC2,libsecurity.so)
siad_ses_suauthent=(OSFC2,libsecurity.so)
siad_ses_reauthent=(OSFC2,libsecurity.so)
siad_chg_finger=(OSFC2,libsecurity.so)
siad_chg_password=(OSFC2,libsecurity.so)
siad_chg_shell=(OSFC2,libsecurity.so)
siad_getpwent=(BSD,libc.so)
siad_getpwuid=(BSD,libc.so)
siad_getpwnam=(BSD,libc.so)
siad_setpwent=(BSD,libc.so)
siad_endpwent=(BSD,libc.so)
siad_getgrent=(BSD,libc.so)
siad_getgrgid=(BSD,libc.so)
siad_getgrnam=(BSD,libc.so)
siad_setgrent=(BSD,libc.so)
siad_endgrent=(BSD,libc.so)
siad_ses_release=(OSFC2,libsecurity.so)
siad_chk_user=(OSFC2,libsecurity.so)
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There are some file permissions I thought could matter somehow:
/etc/auth
-rw-rw-r--   1 auth     auth         553 Aug  9  1994 authorize
-rw-rw-r--   1 auth     auth         587 Aug  9  1994 default
-rw-rw-r--   1 auth     auth        1830 Aug  9  1994 devassign
-rw-rw-r--   1 auth     auth       20631 Aug  9  1994 files
-rw-rw-r--   1 root     system       940 Feb  9 20:23 gr_id_map
-rw-rw-r--   1 root     system      3828 Feb  9 21:32 pw_id_map
-rw-rw-r--   1 auth     auth         490 Aug  9  1994 subsystems
-rw-rw-r--   1 auth     auth        1755 Feb  9 23:56 ttys
..
/tcb/files/auth/o/oust:
-rw-rw----   1 auth     auth         291 Feb  9 23:34 oust
oust:u_name=oust:u_id#15011:u_oldcrypt#0:\
	:u_suclog#887052671:u_suctty=ttyp4:u_unsuclog#887058446:u_unsuctty=ttyp5:\
        :u_numunsuclog#1:chkent:
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All the best wishes!!!
(looking forward for Your answer...)

Received on Mon Feb 09 1998 - 22:07:08 NZDT