* erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071031 13:18]: > > Dear List, > > > > I am getting the above message when trying to change to another user > > on my system. What does it mean? > > > > Regards, > > > > Christian > > does "cpu -u $newuser" work? > Yes using cpu works with any user.
> this is a little bit of a guess, but the key suspect seems to be
>
> port/devcap.c:229: error(Eshort);
>
> i.e. there's no '@' in the Quse message. not sure how that happens.
> what does /sys/log/auth say?
Nothing related to this event. I get a suspicious warning every day:
bob Oct 30 15:37:10 keyfs starting warnings: 47274196 471c6237
But I am not sure if this is related...
>
> my really wild guess is that you changed the hostowner and didn't
> add him to /lib/ndb/auth.
>
My auth file looks like this:
hostid=bootes
uid=!adm uid=*
Thanks,
Christian
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