Hello Andrew!   
      
   Tuesday March 17 2015 05:04, you wrote to me:   
      
    > 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   
    VC>> with setting up or amending a users password (both new and   
    VC>> 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   
    VC>> can only get as far as entering a password then it fails by   
    VC>> saying that 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.   
      
   It may well be the way mbse sets the password that conflicts but I could not    
   see it   
   when I looked at the code but I am hardly current with C and may have missed    
   some   
   odd coding but it does 'assume' specific working that may be out of date with   
   current kernels and password processing.   
      
   Most odd !   
      
      
   Vince   
      
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