Subject: Re: rcp + NIS problem on 1.3_ALPHA
To: Laine Stump <laine@MorningStar.Com>
From: Laine Stump <laine@MorningStar.Com>
List: current-users
Date: 01/07/1998 17:26:58
Laine Stump writes:
> We have 7 machines running 1.3_ALPHA (haven't had time to upgrade to 1.3
> yet) and just yesterday we noticed the following problem.
> 
> On one particular machine, when you attempt to run rcp to get a file
> from any other machine, the following message is displayed:
> 
>    rcp: rcp: rshrcmd: setuid(118): Operation not permitted


P.S - This works just fine with 1.2.1, but now that I check on our one
machine running 1.2G, I find it is broken there as well. Also, the
brokenness continues when you have a line enabling logins for a
"netgroup":

   +@engineering:*:0:0:::

(it attempts to setuid to the uid of the *last* person listed in the
netgroup)