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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Hopefully, one last problem
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 16:12:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070510201231.DDD891E8C3B@holo.morphisms.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DBAC59CD-D054-4BE7-8B90-11B03097CCDE@tinker.com>

> I believe someone told me that the error message from changeuser
> was not important.  Sometime after I did this, I added bootes to
> both the sys and adm groups.  It is possible that I fat-fingered
> password_number_two so I will go through this again the next time
> I go down to the machine room.

It is correct that
>      changeuser: can't open /adm/keys.who
is unimportant.

You should be able to run auth/wrkey on the console
instead of echoing garbage into /dev/sdC0/nvram.
Either way you do need to reboot in order to restart
the machine's factotum.

Russ



  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-10 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-10 15:53 Kim Shrier
2007-05-10 15:57 ` Federico Benavento
2007-05-10 18:04   ` Kim Shrier
2007-05-10 20:12     ` Russ Cox [this message]
2007-05-11  2:05       ` Kim Shrier
2007-05-11 11:58         ` Russ Cox
2007-05-12 23:28           ` Kim Shrier
2007-05-10 20:23     ` erik quanstrom
2007-05-10 21:04       ` Russ Cox
2007-05-10 15:58 ` Russ Cox
2007-05-10 18:04   ` Kim Shrier

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