lance@belltec.UUCP (Lance Norskog) (09/01/89)
In article <899@orbit.UUCP>, jeb@pnet51.cts.com (James Borchart) writes: > > I am having some trouble getting help from ISC on these problems. Tech > Support does not seem to have an answer. To their credit they call me every > week and tell me they don't have an answer. > > 1: /usr/ucb/rsh (not to be confused with the beloved restricted > shell) will give me a shell on the local or a remote host > but if I put a command at the end of the line I get > "Permission Denied" every time. Regardless of command. I have no guess. You could try porting the rshd.c from the BSD 4.3 open release. The daemon programs have a DEBUG compile option where you can run them under sdb. > 2: rexec asks for a password for the specified or default user > and then fails every single time. This is regardless of whether > the user requires a password or not. The message is "Login > Incorrect\nrexec: could not execute remote command." In UNIX V.3.2, there is a new thing called the shadow passwd file, /etc/shadow. The password library was not updated to read this file, instead a new getshadow() (or something like that) was added somewhere in the libraries. All programs which look up passwords have to be rewritten. /etc/rexecd probably hasn't. /etc/fptd has to be rewritten too, does it work? Again, try porting from the BSD 4.3 open release. > 3: SUN's PC-NFS, running on a PC connected by ethernet to the > ISC server, gets "authentication failure" no matter what is typed > for the username and password, or if the user needs a password. See above. /etc/pcnfsd probably needs rewriting too. PC-NFS (I think) comes with the source for pcnfsd, you can hack it yourself. I will forbear any snide comments about debugging other vendors' products. Lance C Norskog Sales Engineer, Streamlined Networks thinman@cup.portal.com: 415-659-1450 -- Lance C Norskog Sales Engineer, Streamlined Networks thinman@cup.portal.com: 415-659-1450