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From: earle@smeagol.UUCP (Greg Earle)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: What mode should `whois' be?
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Date: Wed, 3-Dec-86 23:55:39 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  3 23:55:39 1986
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When I run `whois' as root, everything works fine.  When I run `whois' as
any plain user, I get:

whois: bind: Permission denied

Permissions:
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root     staff       49152 Jan 23  1986 /usr/ucb/whois

Should `whois' be setuid root, or is there some other problem involved?

This is on a Sun-3/160M; Sun OS 3.0.
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