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From: karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: Broken SCCS?
Summary: Not here.
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Date: 12 Oct 89 06:05:37 GMT
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Reply-To: karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish)
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In article <1286@dialog.UUCP> root@dialog.UUCP (Christian Motz) wrote:

>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...

>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 :-)

>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 ...

I haven't seen this behavior.  We have a large SCCS archive that's
accessed several hundred times a week, always by ordinary users,
some from the source server (2.2.1) system and some by NFS from other
2.2.1, 2.2, and non-IBM systems.

This sounds like a file permission problem.  I have no idea which file(s),
but probably not the SCCS utilities.  They have ordinary permissions
on our systems (user bin, group bin, a=rx).

	Chuck Karish		karish@mindcraft.com
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