mn (05/04/83)
A UUCP problem has been found on this system (this should
not surprise anyone). It occurs if you are using uuto to
transfer files between systems.
Uuto uses the uucp command "~/" to prefix the local public
directory to the file name on the target system. If
however, the receiving system has a null name in it's
password file (I don't know why the null password line was
in the file at this point). uucico matches the null user
name and tries to place the file in the root directory.
This will not usually work well so the sending system
receives permission denied status.
The fix is really very simple, in the file expfile.c about
line 36 change the if statement like this:
OLD if (gninfo(user, &uid, full) !=0) {
NEW if (!*user || gninfo(user, &uid, full) !=0) {
Then uucico will not check the password file for the null
name. This has been installed on this system and is working
at the current time. I hope that this is of some help to
someone out there.
Mark Nettleingham
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