Subject: Re: rcp + NIS problem on 1.3_ALPHA
To: Laine Stump <laine@MorningStar.Com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: current-users
Date: 01/07/1998 14:38:30
	Should you have the ':0:0:' in the included line, or should it
	be ':::'?

		David/abs

   ( If cut and paste be your friend, let a brain be your chaparone... )

On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Laine Stump wrote:

> 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)
>