wrong account recognition in SunOS 4.1
David J. Camp
david at wubios.wustl.edu
Wed Aug 1 21:50:04 AEST 1990
Using SunOS 4.1 on a Sun 3/260 we sometimes have our userid changed to
some other account inapproriately. I cannot describe the exact
circumstances under which this occurs, because they are various. For
instance we have a root-owned daemon that sends mail to users. Sometimes
that mail seems to come from a different user instead of root, and not
necessarily a wheel user. Once a user su'ed to a different account, and
after exit'ing he read mail. The mailer tried to read the mail of the
su'ed account instead of his original account. When we submit print jobs
from a su'ed account, sometimes they have the su'ed account on the banner,
and sometimes they have the login account. I think there was another
circumstance under which this has occurred. I am mainly interested in
having it fixed, rather than generate discussion. You can write me about
it if you wish, but I do not read sun-spots. I would call Sun, but I am
no longer responsible for system administration. -David-
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