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- From: amartell@nyx.cs.du.edu (Alex Martelli)
- Subject: Re: sls 99 user problems
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.090224.21056@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
- References: <1h8qqvINNfio@savoy.cc.williams.edu> <ljg4b6INNbgb@cash.cs.utexas.edu>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 09:02:24 GMT
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- woody@cs.utexas.edu (James Woodgate) writes:
- ...
- >I had all these problems also, until I changed the permission bits
- >for /etc/passwd.
- >As root type:
- >> chmod og+r /etc/passwd
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- Aha! THAT was why I couldn't use uucp & friends... since they're
- set-userid to uucp, they were unable to read /etc/passwd, hence the
- failure in getpwnam() and getpwuid(), even though I invoked them from
- root! The chmod fixed it at last...
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- Alex
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