> On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, G. Mazzarello wrote:
>
> > 1) linux 1.2.13
> > Users can read their mail from Windows with Eudora (e.g.) also if
> > they give a wrong user password (Why ???)
>
> This is very interesting and having run 1.2.13 for a long time (when it
> was current), I never saw this problem. Are you absolutely sure the
> password supplied is invalid?
>
Yes, unfortunately, but only from a client running Windows with
TCP/IP and Windows e-mail utilities, in the same network or from
Internet.
> > 2) linux 2.0.18 - Red Hat
> > Users cannot change their password with passwd,
> > root cannot add a new user with adduser Error: /etc/passwd is locked
> > but it's possible from X11 utility (Why ???)
>
> Check for a file /etc/.pwd.lock and remove it if it exists. passwd should
> work from then on.
>
Yes, you are right, as they told me in this last our
Thank you Mike.
Gianni