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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 09:17:04 -0600
From: Andrey Mirtchovski <aam396@mail.usask.ca>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] apu/auth standalone..
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Ish Rattan wrote:

> Password: xxx
> Confirm password: xxx
> assign Inferno/POP secret (y/n) y
> make it same as the plan9 passwd? (y/n) y
> Expiration date(YYYYMMDD or never)[return=never]: <ret>
> changeuser: can't create user bootes: access permission denied
> %

I am having exactly the same problem with my install (it's a single
machine one). I managed to find out that I lack the $auth environment
var, which termrc sets from $sysname.

I edited locate in order for ndb/cs to be able to set $sysname but
I still get the permission denied problem.

Probably all you need to do is set $auth to the machine which will do
the authentication. Unfortunately though, having only a single computer
to dedicate to plan9 I can't experiment with different servers and am
stuck.

Andrey