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From: tim@cholula.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp,net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Need help on UUCP connection (4.2 <--> Ultrix)
Message-ID: <98@cholula.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Sep-85 12:56:51 EDT
Article-I.D.: cholula.98
Posted: Thu Sep 26 12:56:51 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 05:14:51 EDT
References: <95@cholula.UUCP> <132@illogica.UUCP>
Reply-To: tim@cholula.UUCP (Tim Rosmus)
Followup-To: <132@illogica.UUCP>
Organization: Teltone Corp., Kirkland, WA
Lines: 36
Keywords: Ultrix UUCP
Xref: watmath net.bugs.uucp:597 net.unix-wizards:15025
Summary: Fix Found
Organizatio: Teltone Corporation, Kirkland, WA

In article <132@illogica.UUCP> mickey@illogica.UUCP (Michael Thompson) writes:
=>  In article <95@cholula.UUCP> tim@cholula.UUCP (Tim Rosmus) writes:
=> >
=> >... Everytime  I get the connection the Ultrix
=> >machine gives me a RLOGIN message instead of a ROK message.
=> >
=> >The LOGFILE on the remote machine shows a line like below...
=> >	uucp OurMachine (9/9-21:22-15691) (LOGIN VS MACHINE) FAILED
=> >The ERRLOG shows no errors.
=> >
=> >  Now on the Ultrix machine the login for our machine is "UOurMachine"  and
=> >has an appropriate password.  In the remote machine's USERFILE we also have
=> >an entry like   --   UOurMachine,OurMachine /usr/spool/uucppublic.
=> >
=>  
=>  My bet is that your login name "UOurMachine" does not have a unique
=>  UID.  Some versions of UUCP (I've seen it in system V derivitives) do
=>  a getuid() call and search linearly through the password file until
=>  they find the *first* entry with a matching UID. The login name
=>  associated with that UID is what is used to check against entries
=>  in the USERFILE.
=>  
=>  		    mickey m.
=>  		    (Michael Thompson)
=>  		    {ucbvax,decwrl}!dual!vecpyr!altos86!illogica!mickey

 Thanks Michael for the fix to the problem.  Never even crossed my mind since
4.2 systems don't care about that.  Apparently Ultrix UUCP is a mixture of
SYS5 and 4.[23] UUCP.
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                                        Tim Rosmus
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