ken@gvax.cs.cornell.edu (Ken Birman) (06/04/90)
In the call to the ISIS "rexec" function, demos/twenty.c specifies a user-id "isis" and password "nullpass". V2.0 of rexec checks this and does a setuid; since your system probably lacks an account with this id/password it will print an error message. I have no idea why twenty.c passed these particular values; up to now rexec ignored these args. See the rexec man page for full details on the new scheme. I think you change the arguments to 0 to get the messages to go away; in the full bug list we will include a patch.
steig@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Mark J. Steiglitz) (06/05/90)
In article <41692@cornell.UUCP>, ken@gvax (Ken Birman) writes: >See the rexec man page for full details on the new scheme. I think >you change the arguments to 0 to get the messages to go away; Changing the arguments to null strings "" would be safer. -- |Mark J. Steiglitz, 316 Thurston Ave. Apt. B14, Ithaca, NY 14850, 607-257-7319| |Bitnet: steig@CRNLVAX5 | |Internet: steig@cs.cornell.edu | |Usenet:..{cmcl2,shasta,uw-beaver,rochester,mailrus}!cornell!steig | |"Black holes are evil." --Tim the Enchanter and demented astrophysicist | |"Black holes aren't evil; they're just amoral." --me |