Re: tlug: Dang Cobalt!

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Jonathan Byrne - 3Web wrote:

> I log into the Cobalt Qube, immediately go to change my password.  It asks me
> for the current one, so I type it. It asks me for the new one, so I type it.
> It asks me for verification, so I type it again.  Then it says I don't have
> permission to do that.  So I go through the whole thing again, just in case it
> was doing something weird like blowing me off on permissions for a typo.
> Nope.  It really won't let me change my password.  Apparently that's the
> default setting: users can't be trusted to change their own passwords :-(
> 
> Other details:
> 
> It's an RPM system

Don't look at me -- it's not TurboLinux (it's not even x86, is it?)

> Kernel is 2.0.33
> Apache is 1.2.5
> 
> Jonathan Byrne
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