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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:31:20 -0500
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] auth/changeuser problems
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when the maual page says this

     DESCRIPTION
          These administrative commands run only on the authentication
          server.

i think you should read "on the console of the authentication server".
one problem i've sometimes noticed with changeuser is it can duplicate
lines in /auth/keys.who

- erik
> Well, I know for a fact that I have an nvram partition--I can see it
> in /dev/sdC0, and if I 'cat' it there /is/ some data.
> 
> As for keyfs not running, ps | grep keyfs gives me this:
> bootes           66    0:00   0:00      100K Pread    keyfs
> bootes          235    0:00   0:00      100K Pread    keyfs
> The low PID on the first keyfs makes me think it was launched by
> cpurc, which does in fact contain a line to start keyfs. I've also
> restarted the machine remotely using the 'echo reboot /386/9pccpuf >
> /dev/reboot' trick and the problem persists.
> 
> The reason I'm trying to run auth/keyfs as a normal user is so I can
> run auth/changeuser to change my password. What's the deal with
> "passwd", anyway? Although that's the obvious choice for changing my
> password, when I try to run it I get the message "passwd: protocol
> botch: cs: can't translate service".

perhaps you don't have an authserver set in /lib/ndb/local?

- erik