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From: root@dialog.UUCP (Christian Motz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Broken SCCS?
Message-ID: <1286@dialog.UUCP>
Date: 10 Oct 89 23:19:48 GMT
Sender: uucp@dialog.UUCP
Reply-To: root@dialog.UUCP (Christian Motz)
Organization: Software Professional GmbH, Boeblingen, West Germany
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I wonder if IBM overlooked a severe bug in AIX 2.2.1. When I tried to
use SCCS one of these days, the machine told me that my user ID could
not be found in the passwd file and that I should contact my Administrator.
After contacting myself :-) (after all, I *AM* the administrator), I
tried the same thing under the root account, with the result that this
time I got "Memory fault - core dumped". That intrigued me enough to
make some further tests. It seems that the SCCS commands (admin in
particular) try to access /etc/security/passwd, which of course fails
for "normal" users. Once i open /etc/security for the public, they too
get the "Memory fault". (Whew. What a relief :-)

That still doesn't solve the problem, though. It just gives you the idea
that someone at IBM didn't test these things before they were shipped.
But then again I might be wrong. I looked all over the manual and found
nothing unusual. So here's my question:

Does SCCS under AIX 2.2.1 need any kind of special setup? Or have I
stumbled onto a bug? If so, is this a known bug of 2.2.1? I would appreciate
any hints ...

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Christian Motz           uucp: ...!uunet!mcvax!unido!nadia!dialog!root
"Trust me, I know what I'm doing!" -- Sledge Hammer         Bix: cmotz