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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: problem with inbound anonymous uucp sessions
Keywords: Esix Sysvr3 UUCP anonymous
Message-ID: <2727@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 4 Oct 90 15:07:48 GMT
References: <2658@sud509.ed.ray.com> <2719@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <1990Oct4.031429.13960@wolves.uucp>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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In article <1990Oct4.031429.13960@wolves.uucp> ggw%wolves@cs.duke.edu (Gregory G. Woodbury) writes:

| Good try, but Esix is a SVr3.2 derivative and has the "shadow" system by
| default.  Check in the /etc/shadow file to be sure there is no password
| for the nuucp login.

  A useful fact the original poster left out... but many people have
told me by mail.

  Other than remote.unknown which others have pointed out, look for a
missing \ on any line of any entry in the Permissions file. I found this
a few months ago, and the error was in a system description far from the
system having problems (ie. the error didn't show up in the next system,
but 3-4 systems down the file).
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
    VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix.