Re: [cobalt-users] Password getting locked o RAQ2

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ed Booher wrote:

> Delete the three files associated with the user.  user ,
> user.lock , and .user.pop , this *will* cause the user to lose
> what ever mail was "locked" in the user.lock file when his POP3
> client exited incorrectly.

> ...<stuff snipped out of middle>...

> *NOTE* You don't *always* have to delete the main user file,
> however, I have found that a large percentage of the time the
> file has become corrupted (hence the reason to write out into the
> .lock file) and will just recreate the .lock file the next time
> the user attempts to access the account via POP3.

Sounds like a bit of overkill to me.  The kid's stuck at the babysitter
because the babysitter's front doorlock is broken.  So kill the kid.

No, there are other things to do.

If you don't want to go in and edit the user file (and you certainly
can, it is, or should be, just a straight text file) just zip it up an
send it to the user, and let him get out of it whatever he can.  I
generally try not to destroy user-mail.

Jeff
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