username problem

[John B. Milton]

In article <578 at proxftl.UUCP> aaron at proxftl.UUCP (Aaron Zimmerman) writes:
...
>$ passwd
>Changing password for LOGIN
>Permission denied.
>$ passwd aaron
>Old password:
><etc.>

My guess is that the /etc/utmp file is partially trashed. Try a who -a.
A re-boot should solve the problem for now, but you need to figure out what
is going on. I had similiar strangeness happen when I had getty running on a
pty. Do you have anything weird in your /etc/inittab? The reason I suspect
/etc/inittab, is because that is where the LOGIN comes from.

John
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