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From: zeleznik@cs.utah.edu (Mike Zeleznik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: backups
Keywords: rgy_admin, registry, backups
Message-ID: <1990Sep11.215729.6135@hellgate.utah.edu>
Date: 12 Sep 90 03:57:29 GMT
References: <1990Sep10.151351.20186@water.waterloo.edu> <1990Sep11.124044.11537@bnrgate.bnr.ca>
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In article <1990Sep11.124044.11537@bnrgate.bnr.ca> marmen@bcara128.bnr.ca (Rob Marmen 1532773) writes:
>In article <1990Sep10.151351.20186@water.waterloo.edu>, phcalamai@water.waterloo.edu (Paul H. Calamai) writes:
>> 
>> [unable to put rgyd into service mode automatically; e.g. from a suid
>>  shell script or program]
>
>Try a small c program which executes a SYSTEM call to run the script and
>setuid the c program. 

I believe I tried this, and it does not work either.  

The problem, as I remember it, is with the way rgyd insists you be
authenticated (something about password authentication having had to
previously occur for this process for the current effective userid... it's
been a while,  so this could be way off).

To my knowledge (someone PLEASE correct me if I am wrong, as this would
really simplify my life), there is no way to do this from any suid program,
or even from a program which runs directly at login, unless you log
directly into the node.

Mike

  Michael Zeleznik              Computer Science Dept.
                                University of Utah
  zeleznik@cs.utah.edu          Salt Lake City, UT  84112
                                (801) 581-5617