Subject: Re: rsh problems with -current
To: Brian C. Grayson <bgrayson@ece.utexas.edu>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: current-users
Date: 02/25/1997 12:16:27
This was broken for a few hours and then fixed. sup again...

.pm

Brian C. Grayson writes:
>   I did a 'make build' yesterday, and now rsh is broken.  I
> traced it to the fact that /usr/bin/rsh used to be setuid-root,
> and now it is not setuid, and is owned by bin instead.  Is this a
> bug or a feature?  Unfortunately, without setuid rsh, rsh's fail
> even though the corresponding rlogin succeeds.
> 
>   Here are the appropriate ident strings:
> From a working rsh:
> /usr/bin/rsh:
>      $NetBSD: crt0.c,v 1.24 1996/12/07 23:31:07 mycroft Exp $
>      $NetBSD: rsh.c,v 1.4 1997/01/09 20:21:15 tls Exp $
> 
> >From a nonworking rsh:
> rsh:
>      $NetBSD: crt0.c,v 1.24 1996/12/07 23:31:07 mycroft Exp $
>      $NetBSD: rsh.c,v 1.5 1997/02/16 15:01:05 mrg Exp $
> 
>   Thanks in advance.
> 
>   Brian
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