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From: jmb@patton.SGI.COM (Jim Barton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: gr_osview on a remote host
Summary: Remote gr_osview
Message-ID: <28921@sgi.SGI.COM>
Date: 17 Mar 89 21:00:33 GMT
References: <7133@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Sender: daemon@sgi.SGI.COM
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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In article <7133@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>, ijlustig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Irvin Lustig) writes:
> We are trying to use the -N option of gr_osview and get the message
> "Password incorrect."
> "Unable to invoke remote demon"
> 
> All of our hosts are using yellow pages.
> It's not clear how to supply the "correct" password. Is there some
> special change to the services file?  Do we need to set .rhosts 
> in a special way?
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
> 
> 	-Irv Lustig
> 	Assistant Professor
> 	Dept. of Civil Engineering and Operations Research
> 	Princeton University
> 	irv%basie@princeton.edu

There are lots of reasons that this could happen.  If you don't use the
-Nuser@host syntax, gr_osview attempts to login as "guest".  If you don't
support a guest login, or it has a password, then the attempt will fail.

Due to a bug in the current gr_osview, going to any 'user' which has a
password in the password file will fail.  Unfortunately, this causes a
security breach which may not be acceptable in some installations.  I
haven't been able to devise a workaround.

This bug will be fixed in the next release of IRIX, the 3.2 release due
mid-year.

PS.   This bug is totally my own fault, so flame me, but it's not really
      necessary to trash SGI for not fixing bugs.  Even the best of us
      can't do everything perfect.

PPS.  The 3.2 release will have a brand new version of gr_osview that
      you will like alot.

-- Jim Barton
Silicon Graphics Computer Systems    "UNIX: Live Free Or Die!"
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