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echo: mbse
to: Vince Coen
from: Andrew Leary
date: 2015-03-17 05:04:20
subject: Bug?

Hello Vince!

Monday March 16 2015 16:53, Vince Coen wrote to Andrew Leary:

 VC> If you have the time? can you take a look at the way mbse deals with
 VC> setting up or amending a users password (both new and existing)?

 VC> On my system, since changing from Mandriva 2011 (and previous
 VC> versions) to Mageia v4 (and v3) when a new user telnet's in s/he can
 VC> only get as far as entering a password then it fails by saying that
 VC> the file (shadow) is busy.

I think this is something specific to Mageia, because it works fine on
other distributions, including Debian, Ubuntu, and Slackware.  I would have
to try setting up a test system on Mageia to see if I can sort that out.

Andrew

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