Thanks to all of you who helped me!
Rick Troxel:
SGI's own sendmail has traditionally had built-in knowledge of some
shells. Only when you flout its internal list do you need to create
/etc/shells.
This seemed to be the problem. I replaced my sendmail by a newer one
because of security holes (supplied by one of our admins -- so I
wasn't aware of the matter). Now I created an /etc/shells, and
everything works fine.
Thanks once more.
Regards,
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On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Hubert Palme wrote:
palme> Hmm... There is no /etc/shells file on my Irix system. May be
palme> it's at another place!? On my Linux box I found it. But that is
palme> strange: On another Irix system, I also didn't find any
palme> /etc/shells, but there it works fine! So what's wrong?...
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