tp@ndm20 (12/16/85)
Below is a mail reply that I sent to someone on mod.comp.workstations who was having a problem with uuxqt on a sun-100. I am posting it here to see if anyone more knowlegeable has any comments. --------------------------------------------------------------------- >I have a BSD4.2 Vax uucping with the Sun-100 V1.3 software. The uucp >copies work fine, the files all transfered, the connection is terminated >and then uuxqt is fired up. >No matter what I do, uuxqt refuses to execute any command. It returns >mail to the vax with something like "uucp XQT DENIED (rmail )". With a >similar message in the log. >etc... I don't have a sun, but I've had this problem (nasty, isn't it?) on a Masscomp. I don't know the geneology of my uucp, so they may be related. Mine has a bug in the USERFILE handling that gives EXACTLY the symptoms that you describe. Instead of using the file as delivered, I went through the manual and set up my own. Since I was just trying to get it working, I put in a single line that said , / figuring that that would let anything through. Unfortunately, that single line lets nothing through. If I duplicate that line (i.e. put it in there twice) everything works. I don't have source either, but my guess is as follows: if you read the documentation closely, the USERFILE is used for 2 distinct purposes: username validation (including file access validation), and system name validation. My guess is that they forgot to rewind the file for the second scan (note that I am only assuming there are 2 scans, not having source). Thus the first of the above lines validates the system access, and then when looking for a line to validate the user, it hits eof without having found anything, and thus denies access. Terry Poot Nathan D. Maier Consulting Engineers (214)739-4741 Usenet: ...!{allegra|ihnp4}!convex!smu!ndm20!tp CSNET: ndm20!tp@smu ARPA: ndm20!tp%smu@csnet-relay.ARPA
sob@neuro1.UUCP (Stan Barber) (12/22/85)
There is also the possibility that the L.cmds file is setup wrong.
L.cmds contains a list of all commands that uuxqt is allowed to
execute. It ususally contains a PATH line as well so that those commands
can be found. Here is a copy of the one on neuro1----
# Here is the PATH
PATH=:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/lbin
rmail
rnews
uuhosts
ruusend
cunbatch
Put this in /usr/lib/uucp/L.cmds and see if things work better.
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