On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > I think this problem may have something to do with NFS. My home partition > on this machine is NFS-mounted, and I use NIS to get user account info. > When I create a test user on the NIS/NFS server, aptitude gives the same > warning message for him on the client machine. So does a locally created > user on the client whose home directory is on the NFS mount. But a user > created locally on the client, with a home directory outside /home, does > not get the warning.
Ah, just saw this bug report that explains everything! http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=146485 -- Kevin McCarty Physics Department [EMAIL PROTECTED] Princeton University www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]