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   Message 962 of 2,445   
   Andrew Leary to Vince Coen   
   Bug?   
   17 Mar 15 05:04:20   
   
   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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