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|Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 10:44:53 +0100 (MET)
|From: Eivind Gjelseth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|Subject: problem with ssh1.2.26 on IRIX 6.5
|To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Randolph J. Herber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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|On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Randolph J. Herber wrote:
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|> That fix is quite simple:
|> 1) Remove that entire subroutine.
|No need to do this.
That routine is unnecesary.
The effect of ``your'' patch is the effect of the code below
on any proper run system.
|> 2) Replace the call to the subroutine with:
|> newarraysess();
|> setprid(getdfltprojuser(u_name));
|For the xxx time here is the patch.
This patch is wrong in the sense I gave above.
That is why I continue strongly to recommend that
it stop being given out. Why use more code than
is necessary to do a job. And, why I removed
it from this posting also.
What is so hard for ``the SSH supporters'' to understand?
[ erronous patch removed]
|> I assure you that is the way the the SGI login programs
|> do this operation. This works because of how setprid
|> handles the error code returned by getdfltprojuser
|> when the user is not found in the /etc/project file.
|> The second choice is to properly administer the system and assure that
|> _all_ users have entries in the /etc/project file. This method was
|> posted very recently by Ryan Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
|This should not be needed. SGI rsh dos not need it.
What the the SGI patch does is __exactly__ what I
have supplied repeatedly.
|> Randolph J. Herber, [EMAIL PROTECTED], +1 630 840 2966, CD/CDFTF PK-149F,
|> Mail Stop 318, Fermilab, Kirk & Pine Rds., PO Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510-0500,
|> USA. (Speaking for myself and not for US, US DOE, FNAL nor URA.) (Product,
|> trade, or service marks herein belong to their respective owners.)
|Regards
|- eivind
|Phone: +47 555 84163 | Para//ab, Dept. of Informatics
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Randolph J. Herber, [EMAIL PROTECTED], +1 630 840 2966, CD/CDFTF PK-149F,
Mail Stop 318, Fermilab, Kirk & Pine Rds., PO Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510-0500,
USA. (Speaking for myself and not for US, US DOE, FNAL nor URA.) (Product,
trade, or service marks herein belong to their respective owners.)
