Need help on UUCP connection (4.2 <--> Ultrix)

[Michael Thompson]

In article <95 at cholula.UUCP> tim at cholula.UUCP (Tim Rosmus) writes:
>
>... Everytime  I get the connection the Ultrix
>machine gives me a RLOGIN message instead of a ROK message.
>
>The LOGFILE on the remote machine shows a line like below...
>	uucp OurMachine (9/9-21:22-15691) (LOGIN VS MACHINE) FAILED
>The ERRLOG shows no errors.
>
>  Now on the Ultrix machine the login for our machine is "UOurMachine"  and
>has an appropriate password.  In the remote machine's USERFILE we also have
>an entry like   --   UOurMachine,OurMachine /usr/spool/uucppublic.
>

My bet is that your login name "UOurMachine" does not have a unique
UID.  Some versions of UUCP (I've seen it in system V derivitives) do
a getuid() call and search linearly through the password file until
they find the *first* entry with a matching UID. The login name
associated with that UID is what is used to check against entries
in the USERFILE.

On these systems, the practice of using the same UID for all UUCP
accounts is not a recommended one.


		    mickey m.
		    (Michael Thompson)
		    {ucbvax,decwrl}!dual!vecpyr!altos86!illogica!mickey