On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Randolph J. Herber wrote:
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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.
The code has been tested and it works! Case closed!
> |> 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,
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>
> |Regards
> |- eivind
>
> |Phone: +47 555 84163 | Para//ab, Dept. of Informatics
> |Fax: +47 555 84199 | University of Bergen
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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.)
>
Hilsen,
- eivind
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