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From: ken@gvax.cs.cornell.edu (Ken Birman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.isis
Subject: bug in demos/twenty.c causes confusion
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Date: 4 Jun 90 03:34:09 GMT
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In the call to the ISIS "rexec" function, demos/twenty.c specifies
a user-id "isis" and password "nullpass".  V2.0 of rexec checks this
and does a setuid; since your system probably lacks an account with this
id/password it will print an error message.  I have no idea why twenty.c
passed these particular values; up to now rexec ignored these args.

See the rexec man page for full details on the new scheme.  I think
you change the arguments to 0 to get the messages to go away; in the
full bug list we will include a patch.